Uttarkashi helicopter crash: AAIB report says pilot tried emergency landing; rotor hit cable | India News

NEW DELHI: The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has released its preliminary report on the helicopter crash that occurred near Gangnani in Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand, on May 8, 2025. The accident involved a BELL 407 helicopter operated by Aerotrans Services Pvt Ltd. The crash resulted in the death of six people, including the pilot, and left…

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‘Attempting to draw conclusions’: FIP sends legal notice to Reuters, WSJ; slams ‘speculative’ AI171 crash coverage | India News

NEW DELHI: The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) has initiated legal action against international media outlets – Reuters and The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) over their coverage of the Air India Flight 171 crash, which took place on June 12 in Ahmedabad, resulting in the death of 260 people.FIP president Captain CS Randhawa confirmed to…

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‘Assigning blame before …’ : Pilots’ body raises red flag over Air India 171 crash report; calls it ‘premature’ | India News

NEW DELHI: The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) on Wednesday raised serious concerns over the preliminary findings and public commentary surrounding the crash of Air India Flight AI171, which went down in Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff en route to London.In an official statement, the FIP said, “We register our dissatisfaction with the exclusion of pilot…

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AI crash report: International pilots body warns against guesswork | India News

NeEW DELHI: Amid Indian pilot bodies’ criticism of Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau’s preliminary report on the AI-171 crash, International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations (IFALPA) has warned against insinuation to reach a “hasty conclusion”.“The report raises many questions; it does not provide answers. Any extrapolation of its content can only be regarded as guesswork,…

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Now, International Federation of Pilots also says AI 171 report ‘raises questions, provides no answers’ | India News

Air India plane crash (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: The preliminary report into the crash of the June 12 Air India AI 171 crash in Ahmedabad continues to draw flak. Now, the International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations (IFALPA) has warned against coming to “hasty conclusions”. The report, whose details were known to a section…

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Air India crash: Who’s probing the tragedy? Meet the AAIB panel; know who’s leading the probe | India News

NEW DELHI: The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) revealed the five-member panel involved in the probe of the Ahmedabad plane crash, which claimed 260 lives.The panel submitted its 15-page preliminary report on Saturday, which revealed that the fuel control switch transitioned from ‘Run’ to ‘Cutoff’ and a MAYDAY call was issued just two minutes after…

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AAIB preliminary report: Air India pilots’ association lashes out at ‘insinuation of suicide’ | India News

Representative image (AP) NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: A day after Airline Pilots’ Association of India said Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau’s (AAIB) preliminary report on the Air India 171 crash led to the promoting of a “presumption of pilot guilt” even before the probe was complete, Indian Commercial Pilots’ Association (ICPA), one of the Air India pilots’ unions,…

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Ahmedabad plane crash: Emotional effect real, support available for you; Air India tells its pilots after AAIB’s preliminary report | India News

NEW DELHI: Air India will “organise a detailed session (for its pilots) to review (preliminary investigation) report” on the June 12 crash in Ahmedabad of AI-171, a Dreamliner.The airline’s head of flight operations, Captain Manish Uppal, wrote to its pilots on Saturday after Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau released the preliminary report of the investigation into…

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AI171 preliminary probe: 2018 report flagged fuel switch concern, but said it wasn’t ‘unsafe’ | India News

Air India crash (Picture credit: ANI) MUMBAI: The preliminary report of Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) into the June 12 Air India flight 171 crash in Ahmedabad refers to a serviceability bulletin on the Boeing-787’s fuel control switch which indicates a potential equipment malfunction, but deemed it was not an unsafe condition. The AAIB report…

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