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Pilot not blamed in plane crash: Centre
The New Indian Express Sambalpur
|November 14, 2025
THE Centre on Thursday told the Supreme Court that the deceased pilot, Captain Sumeet Sabharwal of Air India, or anyone has not been blamed in the AAIB’s preliminary report into the June 12 plane crash in Ahmedabad that claimed 260 lives.
The top court had issued notice to the Centre and the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on a plea of Pushkaraj Sabharwal, the father of the deceased pilot. Pushkaraj and the Federation of Indian Pilots moved the SC for a monitored inquiry into the plane crash headed by a former apex court judge.
This story is from the November 14, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Sambalpur.
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