The Supreme Court on Monday said that some aspects of the initial report of the Bureau of Investigation (AAIB) on the Air India accident on June 12 were ‘irresponsible’, indicating an omission from the pilots. At the same time, notices were issued to the Center and the Director General of Civil Aviation on a petition seeking independent, fair and quick investigation.
A bench of Justices Suryakant and Justice N. Kotishwar Singh noticed some aspects of the preliminary report of the Bureau of Bureau of Investigation (AAIB) released on July 12. Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the non-governmental organization ‘Safety Matters Foundation’, alleged that the investigation panel, formed after the accident, was three members from the aviation regulator and may include the issue of conflict of interest.
He demanded the release of information from the flight data recorder of the aircraft, so that the causes of the accident could be known. The bench said that the case included aspects of privacy, privacy and dignity. Warning that issuing special types of information could be misused by rival airlines, the bench said that it is paying attention to the limited aspect of independent, fair, independent and quick investigation of the accident.
The petition has been filed by an aviation safety NGO headed by Captain Amit Singh, alleging that the official inquiry violates the fundamental rights of access to the lives, equality and true information of the citizens.
The petition stated that AAIB released its preliminary report on July 12, with the ‘fuel cutoff switch’ for the accident to move into the cutoff with ‘run’, which effectively indicates the pilot’s mistake.
It alleged that the report has been hidden in the report, including the entire output of the digital flight data recorder (DFDR), the entire transcript of the Cockpit Voice Records (CVR) with the time stamp and the Electronic Aircraft Fault Recording (EAFR) data. According to the petition, all these information is mandatory for the transparent and objective understanding of the disaster.
Let us tell you that on June 12, Air India’s Boeing 787-8 aircraft which was flying to Gatvik Airport in London crashed in a medical hostel complex shortly after flying from Ahmedabad, killing 265 people, including 241 passengers and crew members.
The dead included 169 Indians, 52 British, seven Portuguese citizens, a Canadian and 12 crew members. Vishwakumar Ramesh, the only person survived in this accident, was a British citizen.
