Mumbai: The 91-year-old father of late Captain Sumeet Sabharwal on Thursday approached the Supreme Court demanding a judicial probe into the Ahmedabad Air India crash that took place on June 12 this year. Pushkar Raj Sabharwal and Federation of Indian Pilots filed a plea for an independent probe by a committee of aviation experts headed by a retired Supreme Court judge.

The plea, filed on October 10, also reportedly demanded that the current probe by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) should be closed. In the plea, Prakash termed the government inquiry "incomplete and prejudiced".

"An incomplete and prejudiced inquiry, without identification of the exact cause of the accident, endangers the lives of future passengers and undermines aviation safety at large, causing a viol

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