NEW DELHI: A two judge bench of the Supreme Court on Friday said “nobody in the country believes it was the pilot’s fault" that resulted in the crash of Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner in Ahmedabad in June this year, killing 260 people.

The bench headed by Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi made this remark while hearing the plea filed by Pushkaraj Sabharwal, the 88-year-old father of late Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, who served as the Pilot-in-Command of the Air India flight which crashed at Ahmedabad.

"It’s extremely unfortunate that this crash took place, but you (Pushkaraj) should not carry this burden on yourself that your son is being blamed. Nobody can blame him (Pilot) for anything. No one in India believes it is the pilot's fault,” the court said. The court also

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