New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Friday termed “unfortunate” the Air India crash in June in Ahmedabad that killed 260 people, and observed that nobody could blame the pilot for the crash.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi said, “no one in India believes it was the pilot’s fault.”

The top court also issued notices to the Centre, DGCA and others on a plea filed by the father of late Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, who was the Pilot-in-Command of the Air India pilot in a London-bound flight from Ahmedabad, seeking a retired judge-monitored fair, transparent, and technically sound probe into the crash of Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft.

Senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, appearing for the petitioner, told the bench that the current investigation being conducted b

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