New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Friday told the father of late Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, the Pilot-in-Command of the Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner that crashed in Ahmedabad in June, killing 260 people, that nobody in the country believes it was the pilot’s fault.
Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi made the remark while hearing a plea filed by 91-year-old Pushkar Sabharwal, who has sought an independent and technically sound probe into the crash. Expressing sympathy, the Bench assured the petitioner that his son was not being blamed for the tragedy. “It’s extremely unfortunate that this crash took place, but you (the father) should not carry this burden that your son is being blamed.
Justice Bagchi added, There is no insinuation against the pilot so far. The investigation report merely records the communication between the two pilots, it does not apportion blame. He also pointed to a report in the Wall Street Journal that, he said, relied on unnamed Indian sources to hint at pilot error. The Supreme Court has issued notices to the Centre, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), and other authorities, seeking their responses on the plea.
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