Four months after the deadly Air India Flight AI-171 crash that claimed 260 lives in Ahmedabad, the father of the late pilot, Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, has approached the Supreme Court, urging a judicially monitored investigation into the disaster.

Pushkaraj Sabharwal, 88, and the Federation of Indian Pilots have raised serious concerns over the preliminary findings released by the Aircraft Accidents Investigation Board (AAIB), which suggested human error as the primary cause of the crash.

“The investigation is heavily directed towards implicating pilots who can no longer defend themselves, while potential technical and procedural factors remain unexplored,” the petition argues.

The petitioners have also called for an independent inquiry to prevent “factual misdirection through selectiv

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