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Evening Standard
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Jacob Phillips

Air India pilot ‘not to blame’ for crash that killed 241, court told

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India’s top court has said the pilot of an Air India flight bound for Gatwick Airport, which crashed shortly after take-off, was not to blame for the disaster.

Just one person on board the flight survived the tragic crash after the Boeing 787 hit a medical college close to Ahmedabad Airport on June 12.

A judge ruled that “nobody” could blame pilot Sumeet Sabharwal for the crash, which killed 260 people in total.

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