Fatal Air India crash probe ‘far from over’ says CEO days after preliminary report

Fatal Air India crash probe ‘far from over’ says CEO days after preliminary report
The Air India jetliner crash last month killed 260 people. (Reuters)
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Updated 14 July 2025

Fatal Air India crash probe ‘far from over’ says CEO days after preliminary report

Fatal Air India crash probe ‘far from over’ says CEO days after preliminary report
  • The Boeing 787 Dreamliner bound for London began to lose thrust and sink shortly after takeoff
  • Air India jetliner crashed after engine fuel cutoff switches flipped almost simultaneously

NEW DELHI: The probe into last month’s Air India Dreamliner crash in Ahmedabad city is “far from over,” CEO Campbell Wilson said in an internal memo on Monday, adding that the airline is open to further inquiries and warned against “premature conclusions.”

The memo, seen by Reuters, comes after a preliminary report on Saturday showed confusion in the cockpit shortly before the Air India jetliner crashed and killed 260 people last month, after the plane’s engine fuel cutoff switches flipped almost simultaneously and starved the engines of fuel.

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner bound for London from the Indian city of Ahmedabad began to lose thrust and sink shortly after takeoff, according to the report on the world’s deadliest aviation accident in a decade released by Indian accident investigators.

The memo said that the preliminary report found no mechanical or maintenance faults and that all required maintenance had been carried out.


Pilot error caused deadly Bangladesh jet crash: govt

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Pilot error caused deadly Bangladesh jet crash: govt

Pilot error caused deadly Bangladesh jet crash: govt
“There was an error in his take-off,” Yunus’s press secretary Shafiqul Alam told reporters.
More than 170 people were injured in the crash, many badly burned

DHAKA: Pilot error was to blame when a fighter jet smashed into a Bangladesh school in July, killing 36 people in the country’s worst aviation crash in decades, the government said on Wednesday.
Pupils had just been let out of class when the Chinese-made F-7 BJI aircraft slammed into the private Milestone School and College in Dhaka on July 21.
The government announced the findings of a committee report into the crash after it was submitted to the interim leader, Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus.
“There was an error in his take-off,” Yunus’s press secretary Shafiqul Alam told reporters.
More than 170 people were injured in the crash, many badly burned.
The military had initially said that the 27-year-old pilot was on a routine training mission when the jet “reportedly encountered a mechanical failure.”
He tried to divert the aircraft away from densely populated areas but crashed into the two-story school building.
The crash sparked anger and demands that the air force shift its training programs from the densely populated capital.
The air force had initially rejected those demands, saying a base in the capital was important for strategic reasons.
However, Alam said the report recommended that the air force “conduct its training outside Dhaka.”
It also advised that the Civil Aviation Authority ensure “infrastructure such as hospitals, schools, warehouses, and small industries are not built near airports.”