India’s Civil Aviation Minister, Ram Mohan Naidu, has denied any manipulation in the investigation of Air India Flight 171 . This comes more than a month after the father of the flight’s captain alleged that authorities released only selective information from the probe into the crash, which claimed 241 of the 242 lives on board.

In an email to the Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP), the 91-year-old Pushkar Raj Sabharwal complained that investigators had selectively released information, resulting in unfounded speculation surrounding the conduct of his late son, Captain Sumeet Sabharwal. He further stated that officials from India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) visited him in late August 2025 and suggested that his son might have deliberately cut fuel to the plane’s en

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