Air India will resume some international flights in August following the fatal crash of flight AI171 in Ahmedabad last month.On Tuesday (15 July), the airline announced the “partial restoration” of schedules that were reduced during a “safety pause”.

According to sources close to the American side of the investigation, a black box recording suggests that Captain Sumeet Sabharwal may have turned off the Boeing Dreamliner’s fuel supply switches. The post Air India Pilot in Ahmedabad Crash Becomes Focus of Investigation appeared first on Trânsito e metrô.

Tata Sons and Tata Trusts have jointly committed Rs 500 crore to the memorial trust, with each contributing Rs 250 crore. This fund will support ex-gratia payments, medical treatment for the injured,

Captain Kapil Kohal, a long-time friend and fellow Air India pilot, called Sabharwal “sad sack” but remembered him as a “hero” with a “gentle soul”. “He was my senior at flying school and later in Air India. We called him ‘Sad Sack’ because of his melancholic eyes, but he was deeply charismatic and always ready to help.”

The Tata Group has launched a Rs 500-crore AI-171 Memorial and Welfare Trust for victims of the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad. This charitable trust will provide immediate and ongoing support to the victims' families,

The announcement comes a few days after the preliminary report into the AI 171 crash came out. The accident claimed 260 lives—241 of the 242 people on board and 19 on ground.

The preliminary probe report into the fatal crash of Air India flight AI171 indicated a chip malfunction as the cause, a former pilot told Reuters.

A Golden Chassis is a specialised tool used to recover data from damaged flight recorders. It consists of an identical, undamaged unit of the same model as the affected recorder and is used to interfa