New Delhi : The father of late Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, who commanded the Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner which crashed shortly after take-off from Ahmedabad on June 12, has moved the Supreme Court along with the Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP). The writ petition, filed on October 10 under Article 32 of the Constitution, requests that a committee headed by a retired Supreme Court judge and comprising independent aviation experts be constituted to conduct a fair and transparent inquiry into the crash.
Capt Sabharwal’s father Pushkar Raj Sabharwal and Federation of Indian Pilots’ (FIP), consisting of over 6,000 pilots, have sought that the current probe be set aside and all records be transferred to a judicially monitored committee. The petition states that Capt. Sabharwal, who had over 30 years of incident-free flying and more than 15,000 flight hours, was among the most experienced commanders on the Boeing 787 fleet.
The petition points to several inconsistencies in the preliminary report such as; the aircraft’s Ram Air Turbine (RAT), an emergency power generator which deploy automatically when both primary and backup electrical systems fail, was activated before the pilots could make any control inputs. This, it claims, indicates an electrical or software malfunction rather than any human error.
The father, in the petition, has also questioned the report’s finding of both engine fuel control switches moved from “RUN” to “CUTOFF” within one second, describing such synchronised manual movement as “implausible under take-off conditions.”Father of pilot in Air India crash approaches SC, seeks judicial probe
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