https://www.scmp.com/rss/522294/feed India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) is a governmental body, established in 2012 under the Ministry of Civil Aviation, with its headquarters in New Delhi. As a statutory investigative agency, its primary mission is to enhance aviation safety by independently investigating civil aircraft accidents and serious incidents within Indian airspace. The AAIB focuses on determining causes, collecting evidence, and issuing crucial safety recommendations to prevent future occurrences,... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Reuters Reuters Families of those aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 ⁠on Sunday urged ⁠the Malaysian government to extend a ⁠contract it signed with deep-sea exploration firm Ocean Infinity to continue a search for the aircraft that disappeared 12 years ago. The Boeing 777 was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew when it vanished en route from Kuala ‌Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, becoming one of the world’s enduring aviation mysteries. Multiple search operations for the plane have been conducted in the... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3345881/families-mh370-passengers-urge-malaysia-extend-ocean-search?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3345881/families-mh370-passengers-urge-malaysia-extend-ocean-search?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:06:16 +0000 Reuters Reuters India’s civil aviation minister denied on Tuesday there was any “manipulation” in an official investigation into the crash of an Air India Dreamliner in June, after the father of the flight’s captain complained about the actions of investigators. It was the first official reaction to a complaint by Pushkar Raj Sabharwal sent to a pilots’ union last month, in which he said investigators had visited his home and implied that his son had cut the fuel to the plane’s engines after... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3328156/air-india-crash-probe-denies-manipulation-amid-captains-fathers-plea?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3328156/air-india-crash-probe-denies-manipulation-amid-captains-fathers-plea?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 07 Oct 2025 13:47:18 +0000 Reuters Reuters The father of the crashed Air India flight’s captain said officials from India’s accident investigation bureau visited him last month and implied his son cut the fuel to the plane’s engines after take-off, correspondence obtained by Reuters showed. Pushkar Raj Sabharwal, 91, emailed the Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) last week to say that Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) officials had visited him at home on August 30 “under the pretext of offering condolences”, and implied his... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3326877/air-india-crash-grieving-father-captain-says-son-blamed-fuel-cut?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3326877/air-india-crash-grieving-father-captain-says-son-blamed-fuel-cut?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:01:21 +0000 Reuters Reuters Air India said on Tuesday it has completed precautionary inspections of the fuel control switch locking mechanism on all its Boeing 787 and 737 aircraft, with no issues detected. The probe into the Air India crash that killed 241 of the 242 people on board and 19 on the ground is focused on the fuel control switches of the Boeing 787 jetliner, with a final report from India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) expected within a year of the incident. The switches control fuel flow to... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3319146/air-india-crash-carrier-completes-boeing-fuel-switch-inspections-amid-accident-probe?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3319146/air-india-crash-carrier-completes-boeing-fuel-switch-inspections-amid-accident-probe?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 22 Jul 2025 09:30:51 +0000 Reuters Reuters A cockpit recording of dialogue between the two pilots of the Air India flight that crashed last month indicates the captain turned off the switches that controlled fuel flowing to the plane’s engines, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The newspaper cited people familiar with US officials’ early assessment of evidence uncovered in the investigation into the crash, which killed 260 people. The first officer, who was flying the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, asked the more experienced captain... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3318503/air-india-crash-new-details-probe-shift-focus-planes-captain-report-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3318503/air-india-crash-new-details-probe-shift-focus-planes-captain-report-says?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:46:18 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A preliminary finding into last month’s Air India plane crash has suggested the aircraft’s fuel control switches were turned off, starving the engines of fuel and causing a loss of engine thrust shortly after take-off. The report, issued by India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau on Saturday, also found that one pilot was heard on the cockpit voice recorder asking the other why he cut off the fuel in the flight’s final moments. The other pilot replied that he did not do so. The Air India... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3317982/air-india-crash-what-black-boxes-can-tell-investigators-about-plane-accidents?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3317982/air-india-crash-what-black-boxes-can-tell-investigators-about-plane-accidents?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 12 Jul 2025 08:43:42 +0000