New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that the draft final report of the probe conducted by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau into the June 2025 crash of Air India Flight AI-171 crash in Ahmedabad would be filed before the apex court in the first week of October in a sealed cover.
A three-judge bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V. Mohana took note of the submissions of Solicitor General Tushar Mehta that the Federation of Indian Pilots can provide its inputs to the AAIB, which, in turn, can peruse and deal with them if found necessary during the investigation.
Mehta told the apex court that four simulation tests have been conducted as sought in an application by one of the petitioners. The final draft report will be filed before the top court in a sealed cover, he said.
The top court was hearing petitions filed by an NGO, a law student and the father of the deceased pilot, seeking an independent, court-monitored investigation into the crash. It posted the pleas for hearing on October 13.
The AAIB had said there is an “absolute statutory prohibition” on disclosing cockpit voice recordings and airborne image recordings from the June 12, 2025, Ahmedabad plane crash to any external committee or the public.
It had said that sharing such material would violate Rule 17(1) and Rule 17(5) read with Schedule C of the Aircraft (Investigation of Accidents and Incidents) Rules, 2025.
Prior to this, the top court had asked the Centre to file a brief report on the “procedural protocol” followed so far, after it was informed that the investigation into the crash by the AAIB is at its fag end.
Air India’s Boeing 787-8 flight AI171, en route to London’s Gatwick airport, crashed after the plane took off from Ahmedabad. Former Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani was among the victims of the plane crash.
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