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Boeing, Honeywell sued by Air India crash victim families
Pushkaraj Sabharwal demands a formal probe led by a retired Supreme Court judge with pilot representation, citing damage to his son's reputation from premature media speculation after the crash.
- In an August 29 letter, 91-year-old Pushkaraj Sabharwal demanded MoCA and AAIB order a Rule 12 probe, citing the July preliminary report's harm to Captain Sumeet Sabharwal's reputation.
- The AAIB's July 12 preliminary report noted it was too early to draw definite conclusions, revealing fuel control switches shifted from RUN to CUTOFF within a second, prompting media speculation about pilot action.
- Sabharwal highlighted Captain Sumeet Sabharwal's over 25 years of spotless flying and more than 15,600 hours, including 8,596 on the Boeing 787, and requested a formal probe led by a retired Supreme Court judge with technical experts and pilot representatives.
- Sabharwal warned he would seek court action within seven days, while families of four passengers filed a complaint in Delaware Superior Court on September 16 alleging a faulty Boeing 787 switch locking mechanism.
- The June 12 crash, which killed 260 people, remains under inconclusive investigation by international investigators and the AAIB, with the family citing Boeing 737 MAX crashes as precedent for technical fault scrutiny.
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Boeing, Honeywell sued by Air India crash victim families
The families of four passengers killed in the June 12 crash of an Air India Boeing 787 said in a lawsuit that the accident resulted from allegedly faulty fuel switches, which the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has said do not appear to have caused the accident that killed 260 people.
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The families of four passengers who died in the catastrophic crash of Air India Flight 171 have filed a product defect and negligence lawsuit against The Boeing Company and Honeywell International. According to the lawsuit, filed in Delaware Superior Court, flight data indicates that an Air India pilot accidentally shut off fuel to the Boeing 787-8...
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