“AAIB follows ‘definitive, rules-based process’, totally unbiased in investigation,” Civil Aviation Minister Rammohan Naidu said. File
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Responding to a question during Question Hour of the Rajya Sabha regarding the Ahmedabad Air India AI171 flight crash, Union Civil Aviation Minister K. Rammohan Naidu said.
“To have a definitive answer and definitive future correction measures, we have to look at the final report. I can say this House and to the people of this country, the AAIB has a very definitive, thorough, rules-based process. We have followed thoroughly, without any negligence, we have thoroughly followed all the corrective and suggestive measures from the ICAO international protocol,” he said.
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“They are very transparently looking into the process right now, and they are totally unbiased. The AAIB is totally unbiased and looking into the facts,” the Union Minister said. “There can be many questions; I have seen multiple articles by not only Indian media but also western media trying to promote their own narrative, their own viewpoint, their own considerations, but I have to tell you that the way we are seeing the investigation is through the facts. We want to stand by the truth. Not what is happening with the pilots, or not what is happening with Boeing or not what is happening with Air India or any other stakeholder,” he added.
“We want to find out what exactly happened, and that is only going to come out once the final report has been placed. We have to respect the process of investigation, and once that process of investigation has happened, then we can talk about what happened and how it happened and then the corrective measures,” Mr. Naidu said.
Union Minister Naidu further said that the government is not differentiating between the victims of the Ahmedabad flight crash. “The compensation for passengers and others who were killed on the ground, or the students who were killed at the medical college near the accident site has been the same,” he added.
Published – July 21, 2025 01:00 pm IST
