Mumbai, Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) President C S Randhawa on Friday alleged the investigator did not give "much importance" to the statement of the lone survivor in the Air India flight 171 crash last year on the "flickering of lights" in inside the aircraft, saying that this could have been an important piece of evidence" to probe the electrical failure angle.
Speaking with PTI, Randhawaa also alleged that the FIP has taken up the matter related to the AI171 probe in multiple ways with the Civil Aviation Ministry, Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), which has been probing the crash, and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in the last one year but there has not been any response from any of them.
