NEW DELHI: The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has declined a request from the pilots’ body ALPA India to include its representative in the team probing the June 12 Air India crash that killed 260 people. Also Read: Pilots’ body seeks judicial probe into Air India AI171 crash “AAIB expressed its inability to include pilots from ALPA as subject matter experts in the team probing the Air India plane crash, citing government norms,” Airline Pilots Association (ALPA) India president Sam Thomas told PTI after the group’s representatives met AAIB DG GVG Yugandhar in the national capital. “There was not much discussion on the Air India plane crash due to the ongoing investigation. We have been given assurance that we would be invited for the quarterly meetings in the

See Full Page