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The Parliamentary Committee on Transport has summoned Boeing officials and the civil aviation secretary to appear before it over the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad earlier this month.
The committee is tasked with conducting a detailed study of the crash of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft that killed 275 people, with investigations being underway to ascertain the cause of the mishap.
The parliamentary committee is also expected to hold meetings with officials from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), Air India and Boeing, according to a report by Economic Times.
The committee, led by Rajya Sabha MP and JDU national working president Sanjay Jha, also oversees matters concerning civil aviation. It is currently preparing a comprehensive report on passenger safety in air travel and plans to hold broader discussions on the Ahmedabad plane crash as part of this effort.
Earlier today, India denied the United Nations permission to join the probe into the AI 171 crash. The UN’s aviation agency has taken the unusual step of offering India one of its investigators to assist.
Previously, the International Civil Aviation Organisation has deployed investigators to help with certain probes, such as the downing of a Malaysian plane in 2014 and a Ukrainian jetliner in 2020, but those times the agency had been asked for assistance.
Meanwhile, the Union Aviation Ministry, on Thursday, said that investigators downloaded flight recorder data around two weeks after the crash.
Under international rules known throughout the industry by their legal name “Annex 13,” the decision of where to read flight recorders should be made immediately in case the evidence obtained could avert future tragedies.
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More ShortsEarlier this week, an Indian aviation ministry official who declined to be named said the department has been “following all the ICAO protocols.” The official added that media representatives have made updates on important events.
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