The pilot of the Air India plane which crashed in June is not insinuated in the crash report. Photo: AP PHOTO

India's top court said that a preliminary report on an Air India crash that killed 260 people in June does not insinuate anything against the captain, but it will hear a plea from the pilot's father for an independent probe.

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The plea by 91-year-old Pushkar Raj Sabharwal for an investigation by a panel of aviation experts, to headed by a retired Supreme Court judge on November 10, came weeks after he criticised the government investigation.

He said two officials from India's

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