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Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu denied on Tuesday there was any "manipulation" in an official investigation into the crash of an Air India Dreamliner in June, after the father of the flight's captain complained about the actions of investigators. It was the first official reaction to a complaint by Pushkar Raj Sabharwal sent to a pilots' union last month in which he said investigators had visited his home and implied that his son had cut the fuel to the plane's engines after takeoff.

Air India flight 171 crashed moments after it took off from Ahmedabad in June, killing 260 people.

Sabharwal, 91, emailed the Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) to complain of "selective" releases of information from the investigators

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