Nov 7 (Reuters) – The Supreme Court said on Friday that a preliminary report on the fatal Air India crash does not insinuate anything against the pilot and will hear a plea from the pilot’s father seeking an independent probe on November 10.
The father of the Air India pilot in a June crash that killed 260 has asked the Supreme Court to order an independent investigation that takes into account causes other than pilot action.
India’s air accidents investigating agency published an interim report earlier this year saying the plane’s fuel engine switches had almost simultaneously flipped from run to cutoff just after takeoff.
