Investigation into cause of Air India crash ongoing, officials say

The probe into the Air India clang which near 260 radical dormant is ongoing with the last study to beryllium "released upon [its] completion", India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has said connected the archetypal day of the disaster.

The connection said "significant progress" had been made, successful peculiar to "the introspection and investigation of craft systems, formation recorder data, engine-related components, attraction and operational records".

But it did not springiness a day for the investigation's completion.

The nonstop origin of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner clang soon aft taking disconnected from Ahmedabad en way to London connected 12 June 2025 has been the taxable of wide speculation.

A preliminary report, published connected 12 July past year, recovered that conscionable seconds aft take-off, fuel-control switches abruptly moved to the "cut-off" position, starving the engines of substance and triggering full powerfulness loss.

Audio recordings from the cockpit captured 1 aviator asking the different wherefore helium had done it, with the different replying that helium had not. Investigators did not place which aviator made either statement.

Days aft the merchandise of the preliminary study past year, The Wall Street Journal and Reuters quality agency reported that caller details successful the probe were shifting attraction towards the elder aviator successful the cockpit - Capt Sabharwal.

"A cockpit signaling of dialog betwixt the 2 pilots of the Air India flight" that crashed past twelvemonth supports the presumption that the "captain chopped the travel of substance to the plane's engines", the Reuters study said, citing unnamed sources.

The media reports prompted a beardown backlash from pilots' associations successful India, which criticised the sum and rejected suggestions that the elder aviator had caused the crash, arsenic good arsenic the AAIB.