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Bhubaneswar, July 17 (UNI) The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Odisha police on Thursday arrested two fraudsters on the charge of cheating Rs 1.56 crore from a woman in Odisha's Cuttack district on the pretext of higher returns in online gaming platforms. The CID sleuths acted on a complaint filed by Mamata Rout (38), a native of Balisahi village under the Salipur police station jurisdiction of Cuttack, alleging that she was cheated to the tune of Rs 1.56 crore by the accused persons ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, July 17 (Reuters) - India's aircraft accident investigation body said on Thursday it was too early to reach any "definite conclusions" on what led to the deadly Air India Boeing plane crash last month that killed 260 people. "We urge both the public and the media to refrain from spreading premature narratives that risk undermining the integrity of the investigative process," Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) chief GVG Yugandhar said, adding that the investigation is still ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 17 (ANI): Former Flight Operations Inspector with the DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation), Captain Prashant Dhalla, spoke to ANI on Thursday regarding the Wall Street Journal news report on the Air India AI 171 crash that occurred in Ahmedabad last month. Dhalla emphasised the word transitioned, which was mentioned in the report. He further explained that this report suggests a challenge-and-response dynamic exists between the two pilots, with one questioning th ...Read More >
A young woman named Oleti Pushpa (22) was killed by her live-in partner Sheikh Shamma (22) in the Ambedkar Konaseema region of Andhra Pradesh, reported India Today. She was living with Sheikh for the past 6 months after she separated from her spouse. The incident took place in Siddhartha Nagar, B Savaram village of Rajolu mandal on 16th July. Shamma reportedly accused Pushpa of having affairs with other men. He forced her to engage in prostitution and frequently instigated fights with her when ...Read More >
The Indian Pilots Guild has criticized the preliminary report on the Air India AI171 crash, emphasizing the need for a thorough, fact-driven investigation rather than conjecture. They argue that the report's omissions of vital technical explanations and cockpit voice transcripts lead to unnecessary speculation and misinformed narratives. Indian Pilots Guild, an association of Air India pilots, on Monday slammed the preliminary report on Boeing 787-8 plane crash on June 12, saying that the crew ...Read More >
The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) has condemned the Wall Street Journal's fresh article on the Air India flight crash, alleging the report tried to point out the "pilot's mistake" over the movement of fuel control switches on the plane. CS Randhawa, the FIP chief, slammed the report, pointing out that the preliminary probe report by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau's (AAIB), released last week, did not place blame on any pilot. "...Nowhere in the (probe) report has it been mentio ...Read More >
Mumbai: The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) on Thursday asked the government to reassess possible technical misinterpretation or mechanical faults in Air India's Boeing 787-8 plane that crashed last month and sought inclusion of subject matter experts in the probe. Flagging concerns about the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau's (AAIB) preliminary report into the crash that killed 260 people on June 12, the federation said the report failed to sufficiently consider or acknowledge two plau ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 14 (PTI) Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Priyanka Chaturvedi on Monday wrote to Civil Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu, demanding a probe to figure out how details of a preliminary report into the crash of Air India flight AI171 was released to the international media before its release in India. In a letter to Naidu, she said a formal inquiry should be conducted into the "leak". Seeking transparency regarding the authorship of the report, Chaturvedi said the names of all membe ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 14 (PTI) It was human error that led to the fuel switches being cut off before Air India's Boeing 787-8 plane crashed in Ahmedabad last month, and there also should have been more transparency in the AAIB's preliminary report on the accident, aviation expert Captain Mohan Ranganathan said on Monday. His comments come at a time when the pilots' associations have flagged concerns about speculations of possible pilot error for the AI 171 flight crash that killed 260 people on June 1 ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Two leading commercial pilots' associations have dismissed allegations that human error caused the fatal Air India crash, which claimed 260 lives. The rebuttal follows a preliminary report suggesting the aircraft's engine fuel switches were turned off before the disaster. The report, released by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), did not assign blame but noted cockpit dialogue where one pilot questioned why fuel was cut off, with the other denying responsibility. ...Read More >
New Delhi: Air India CEO Campbell Wilson on Monday, July 13, said that the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau's (AAIB) preliminary findings into the fatal crash of Flight AI-171 found no evidence of "mechanical failure or maintenance lapses". The tragic Ahmedabad-London flight crashed moments after take-off from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport on June 12, killing 241 of the 242 passengers onboard, and reportedly 38 people on ground. Only one British passenger survived the ...Read More >
Ahmedabad plane crash: Fuel switches cut off before AI plane crash, reveals first investigation report The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau's (AAIB) preliminary report on AI 171's fatal crash has identified no cause, nor has it made any recommendations to the airline, Air India's chief executive officer (CEO) Campbell Wilson said on July 14, urging people to avoid drawing premature conclusions while pointing that no mechanical or maintenance issues were found with either the Boeing aircra ...Read More >
New Delhi: Air India CEO Campbell Wilson said the initial report by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) into the recent Air India plane crash has not identified any mechanical or maintenance issues with the aircraft or its engines. He urged the public and media to avoid drawing premature conclusions, as the investigation is still underway. "The AAIB's preliminary findings did not identify a specific cause for the accident nor did they make any recommendations at this stage," Wilso ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Indian Commercial Pilots' Association (ICPA), the narrow-body fleet pilots' body at Tata Group-owned Air India, on Sunday said the crew of the AI-171 flight that crashed last month acted in line with their training and responsibilities under challenging conditions, and the pilots should not be vilified based on conjecture. Strongly rejecting insinuations in some quarters about pilot suicide, the association representing narrow-body pilots of Air India stressed that until the offic ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) India's pilot associations have slammed the 'reckless speculation' around the Air India Boeing Dreamliner crash at Ahmedabad, as sections of the media have hinted that the pilots are to be blamed for the tragic incident. The Indian Commercial Pilots' Association (ICPA) on Sunday condemned 'insinuations of pilot suicide' as baseless and insensitive, saying the crew acted in line with their training for an emergency. "Speculation is irresponsible and cruel. Th ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) The preliminary findings into the Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner crash at Ahmedabad are not enough to determine the exact cause of the accident, and investigators should not draw conclusions at this stage, former Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) Director, Group Captain Aurobindo Handa, has said. The Air India flight AI171 crashed just seconds after taking off into a medical college hostel building, killing 241 passengers and crew on board the pl ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Indian Commercial Pilot Association (ICPA) has strongly condemned speculation surrounding the Air India Flight 171 crash, particularly dismissing unfounded suggestions of pilot suicide. In an official statement issued Sunday, the association emphasized the need to respect formal investigative procedures and avoid premature conclusions until the final report is released. Pilots Call for Respect for Investigation Process "As aviation professionals, we trust and respect the rigorou ...Read More >
Raigad (Maharashtra) [India], July 13 (ANI): Pramila Patil, mother of crew member Maithili Patil, who died in the ill-fated Air India plane crash on June 12, reacted to the preliminary report of the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) and said Air India cant cause such negligence. The Air India Boeing 787-8 aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport on June 12, resulting in the deaths of 260 individuals, including 229 passenger ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 13 (ANI): Sneha Debnath, a 19-year-old girl from Sabroom in South Tripura district, reportedly went missing in the national capital. Following this, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha gave necessary instructions to the police to take immediate and appropriate action on the matter. Also Read | Trump Announces 30% Tariffs on EU Goods as Trade Talks Stall. In a statement posted on its official social media account, the Tripura Chief Minister's Office stated, "The report of ...Read More >
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 the crash of AI-171, saying: "The initial report gives us an initial insight. This is not the last word, but a beginning - an ...Read More >
MUMBAI: Investigation into the Air India flight AI171 crash in Ahmedabad has revealed an unsettling detail. Three seconds after take-off, fuel supply to both engines of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner was cut off, either by a faulty fuel supply switch or manually by one of the two pilots. The report is ambiguous on what starved the engines. But it referred to a 2018 safety bulletin that instructed airlines to look out for a possible mechanical fault with the fuel control switches, which could cut off ...Read More >
One month after the tragedy, an early investigation into the accident has detailed a breakdown of the minutes leading up to the incident, which killed 260 people, as ITV News' Sejal Karia reports. A preliminary report into the Air India crash last month has found that fuel to the engines appears to have cut off shortly after takeoff. According to the report, the switches in the cockpit which provide fuel to the engines turned to the CUTOFF position. The engines tried to restart, but it was to ...Read More >
Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu on Saturday addressed the media regarding the preliminary investigation report issued by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) on the recent Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad. He praised the AAIB for its swift and professional response, particularly the successful recovery and decoding of the aircraft's black box -- an important milestone in the investigation process. He said: "I would like to appreciate the job done by AAIB. ...Read More >
As details emerged from a preliminary inquiry report on the June 12 Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, the Airline Pilots' Association of India (ALPA) said on Saturday that the probe was "being driven in a direction presuming the guilt of pilots and we strongly object to this line of thought". A statement by ALPA chief Sam Thomas on Saturday, July 12, said, "We have been given a copy of the preliminary report which is believed to be furnished by the AAIB (Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau ...Read More >
New Delhi: Compared with last year, murders rose by 4% this year between Jan and June, according to Delhi Police, though the crime data for the period showed that overall, there was a decrease of 8.4% in criminal cases.The data listed 250 murders in the current year, marking a slight increase compared with the 241 murders in the first six months of the previous year. A senior officer disclosed that the majority of this year's murders were unpremeditated, spur-of-the-moment actions, triggered by ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 12: Seconds before Air India flight 171 crashed while ascending from Ahmedabad, the fuel control switches of both its engines were cut off, a preliminary investigation report said on Saturday, suggesting a catastrophic pilot error in the cockpit of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. A 15-page preliminary investigation report into the disaster revealed fuel-control switches of the two engines moved from the "run" to the "cutoff" position, within the space of one second, leading to immedi ...Read More >
NEW DELHI (AFP) -- Fuel control switches to the engines of an Air India flight that crashed shortly after takeoff, killing 260 people, were moved from the "run" to the "cutoff" position moments before impact, a preliminary investigation report said early Saturday. The report, issued by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), did not offer any conclusions or apportion blame for the 12 June disaster, but indicated that one pilot asked the other why he cut off fuel, and the second p ...Read More >
ahmedabad, India - A preliminary report into the tragic crash of Air India flight AI171 has revealed that all crew members were deemed fit to operate the flight after being breathalysed upon arrival at Ahmedabad airport. The inquiry is now intensely focused on retrieved engine components, with investigators identifying "components of interest for further examinations." The aircraft,en route to Ahmedabad,began losing altitude before crossing the airport perimeter wall. While no significant b ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: A Golden Chassis from the United States helped download 49 hours of flight data from one of the black boxes of Air India's ill-fated Boeing 787-8 aircraft that crashed last month.After the fatal accident that destroyed the aircraft and killed 260 people on June 12, the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) retrieved the two black boxes or Enhanced Airborne Flight Recorders (EAFRs) and brought them to the national capital on June 24.Generally, data from damaged flight recorders ...Read More >
New Delhi: The interim report on the Air India plane crash that took place on June 12 at Ahmedabad has suggested that the Air India Dreamliner, which crashed soon after takeoff, might have suffered mechanical or power supply issues that could have led to the change in the position of the switches that feed fuel into the plane, experts said on Saturday, 12 July 2025. They said that the reasons for the change in fuel switch position will be known during further investigations. The investigation w ...Read More >
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