The Supreme Court has sent a notice to the Centre on a plea made by the father of the pilot of the Air India flight AI 171 that crashed in Ahmedabad. The notice seeks an independent judicial inquiry into the crash and the alleged bias in the initial probe.

Then SC also said on Friday that the no blame could be attributed to the pilot of the Air India flight that was bound for London and crashed in June this year, killing 260 people.

A bench comprising Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi heard the petition filed jointly by the the father of Commander Sumeet Sabharwal, one of the pilots of the flight, and the Federation of Indian Pilots. Senior Advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, the father of the pilot, said that the current investigation, which is being conducted by the Aircraft

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