AAIB conducted a psychological autopsy and prepared a cockpit transcript as the probe into the 2025 Air India Boeing 787 crash that killed 260 people enters its final phase. A draft report is expected around October.
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India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has conducted a psychological autopsy and prepared a cockpit voice recorder transcript as the probe into the June 2025 Air India Boeing 787 crash enters its final stages, a court filing showed.
The filing, reported by Reuters, did not name the subject of the autopsy or disclose any findings. The crash in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, killed 260 people – 241 of the 242 on board and 19 on the ground.
An analysis of data retrieved in late May from an engine monitoring unit was still pending, the AAIB said. An assessment of certain organisational factors also remained in progress. The bureau did not provide further details.
Investigators interviewed Air India 787 pilots, crew members who had previously flown with the pilots of the crashed aircraft, technical personnel who prepared the jet, air traffic controllers, weather officials and human-factors specialists, the AAIB said in the filing dated Tuesday. The families of the flight crew were also approached at their residences during the early stages of the investigation.
One of those home visits last year upset Pushkar Raj Sabharwal, the father of the captain, who said officials implied his son cut the fuel to the plane's engines after takeoff. He filed a lawsuit that led to the AAIB's disclosures in the court filing.
The AAIB said media speculation and narratives attributing blame to the pilots had caused some witnesses to become "restrictive and non-responsive."
The probe is now in the analysis phase, with findings and conclusions being drawn across operational, technical, human-factors and organisational areas. The AAIB said it expected the remaining investigation activities to be completed within about six weeks, subject to pending "external dependencies."
A draft final report is expected around October, after which it will be circulated to relevant participating countries for comments before being finalised and published, the filing said. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is one of the parties due to receive the draft report.
According to US officials' early assessment reported by Reuters last year, the cockpit recording of dialogue between the two pilots supported the view that the captain cut the flow of fuel to its engines. The AAIB said at the time it was "too early to reach any definite conclusions."
Air India's Boeing 787-8 flight AI171, en route to London's Gatwick airport, was operated by pilot-in-command Captain Sumeet Sabharwal and co-pilot Captain Clive Kunder. The crash killed 169 Indians, 52 Britons, seven Portuguese nationals, one Canadian and 12 crew members. Former Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani was also among the victims. Only one person, Vishwashkumar Ramesh, survived.
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