The Supreme Court Thursday remarked that the purpose of the inquiry into the Air India flight that crashed in Ahmedabad June 12, claiming over 260 lives, is not to assign blame, but to ascertain the causes of the incident so that such tragedies can be prevented in the future.

A Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi was hearing petitions filed by the family of late Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, the Pilot-in-Command of the ill-fated flight, and by the aviation safety NGO Safety Matters Foundation, which has alleged that the ongoing investigation by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) “suffers from serious procedural infirmities” and violates the right to life and fair investigation under Article 21 of the Constitution.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, the second-highest

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