Ahmedabad: Four months after the horrific Air India crash in Ahmedabad killed all but one of 242 people on board flight AI-171 and 19 others on ground, the father of late Captain Sumeet Sabharwal has moved the Supreme Court seeking a judicially-monitored inquiry into the accident.

The 91-year-old Pushkaraj Sabharwal, whose son Captain Sumeet was one of the two pilots of the ill-fated Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner which crashed 30 seconds after taking off from Ahmedabad en route to London Gatwick, has filed a writ petition along with Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP), seeking closure of the probe by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB). ADVERTISEMENT

The writ petition, filed on October 10 under Article 32 of the Constitution, has asked for a committee to be constituted, headed by

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