Overview

• The Federation of Indian Pilots asked the Civil Aviation Ministry to invoke Rule 12 to constitute a judicial Court of Inquiry and to halt the AAIB’s administrative investigation.
• In a September 17 email, the captain’s 91-year-old father said AAIB officials visited on August 30 and insinuated his son moved the fuel switches, citing selective cockpit audio and a “layered voice analysis.”
• The pilots’ body accused investigators of unlawfully disclosing protected cockpit recordings, saying media narratives wrongly portrayed the late captain as suicidal in violation of Rule 17(5).
• India’s Supreme Court has sought a government response to a public interest petition seeking an independent probe into the June 12 disaster.
• AAIB’s preliminary report found both engine fuel-control switches transitioned to CUTOFF seconds after takeoff and captured cockpit confusion without assigning blame, with the wider technical investigation still in progress with international participation.