On Thursday, the government told the Supreme Court that there has been “no attempt to apportion blame on anyone” in the investigation into the Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner crash of June 12 that killed over 250 people. The inquiry is being carried out by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Board (AAIB), and the government, in its notice to the court, highlighted that the purpose of such investigations is about the causative aspect of an accident and to ensure it does not happen again, rather than the blame aspect of the investigation.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi noted that the object of air crash investigation under international standards is to determine safety issues and possible systemic safety issues, and not to assign blame. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who represent the Centre, said that the investigation is being conducted in accordance with the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) conventions in relation to air accident investigation, which provide a “clear regime” in such cases. He noted that where victims come from other countries, then their representatives, as per the provisions of ICAO, participate in the investigations, and that it is never a situation of assigning blame to anyone.
The bench was hearing a petition filed by the father of Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, one of the pilots from the crash.
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