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The Economic Times
The Economic Times

Pilots' body FIP seeks B787 simulator tests to verify certain aspects in Air India plane crash probe

New Delhi: The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) on Sunday asked probe agency AAIB to carry out Boeing 787 simulator tests to verify the relation between RAT deployment and fuel control switch movement with respect to the AI171 plane crash last year.

The pilots' grouping's demand comes days after the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) released its interim statement on June 12 saying that significant progress has been made in the probe into the Air India plane crash that killed 260 people on June 12, 2025.

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