Do not bounce to conclusions, Air India crash probe is on: AIIB cautions in opposition to media hypothesis

Within the wake of media studies concerning the investigation into the crash of Air India flight final month, the Plane Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has stated that the media and the general public ought to look ahead to the ultimate report after the completion of the investigation.

The AAIB is the designated Indian company to research air accident. It’s at the moment investigating the Air India AI-171 crash on June 12 in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad by which 260 individuals, together with 241 of 241 individuals aboard and 19 individuals on the bottom, have been killed.

Consistent with the duty beneath the Chicago Conference, the AAIB printed the preliminary report into the investigation final week. Unbiased specialists have raised questions on the report and media have mentioned varied elements of the studies, such because the report paraphrasing the important dialog between the 2 pilots within the cockpit and never utilizing their actual phrases. Furthermore, the report didn’t point out which pilot stated what.

In a press release on Thursday, AAIB Director Normal GVG Yugandhar stated, “It has come to our consideration that sure sections of the worldwide media are repeatedly trying to attract conclusions by way of selective and unverified reporting. Such actions are irresponsible, particularly whereas the investigation stays ongoing. We urge each the general public and the media to chorus from spreading untimely narratives that danger undermining the integrity of the investigative course of.”

Yugandhar additionally sought to guarantee that no conclusions might be reached on the present stage of the investigation and the ultimate report can have root causes in addition to suggestions.

The AAIB’s assertion got here inside a day of Wall Road Journal reporting that the conduct of senior pilot, Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, was in focus within the investigation.

The recording between Sabharwal and the primary officer, Clive Kunder, signifies that it was the captain who turned off switches that stopped the provision of gasoline to the aeroplane’s two engines, the newspaper reported individuals acquainted with US officers’ early evaluation of proof as saying.

The individuals quoted above advised the newspaper that Kunder requested Sabharwal why he had switched off the gasoline provide switches in a state of panic whereas Sabharwal replied calmly.

Notably, the AAIB’s preliminary report paraphrased this alternate between the 2 pilots and didn’t point out who stated what.

“Within the cockpit voice recording, one of many pilots is heard asking the opposite why did he cutoff. The opposite pilot responded that he didn’t accomplish that,” the preliminary report stated.