Ahmedabad Plane Crash: ‘Unbaised’ AAIB carrying out thorough probe, says Union Civil Aviation Minister

Union Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu. PIC/PTI

The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) is "totally unbiased" and is carrying out a definitive and thorough rule-based probe to find out what exactly led to the Air India plane crash that killed 260 people last month, Union Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu said in Rajya Sabha on Monday.

Ten days after the AAIB came out with its initial probe into the fatal crash, Naidu said the investigation process is being carried out as per international norms and assured the Upper House that the country has a very robust aviation safety mechanism.

"We want to stand by the truth. We want to find out what exactly happened and that is only going to be coming out once the final report (of AAIB) is placed. We have to respect the process of investigation and once that process has happened, then we can talk about what happened, how it happened and then corrective measures (can be taken)," Naidu said.

Amid speculations over the possible role of pilots in the accident, Naidu said the AAIB's preliminary report talks about only what has happened based on the facts in the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder.

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