{"id":647211,"date":"2025-09-20T12:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T06:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=647211"},"modified":"2025-09-20T12:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T06:39:10","slug":"air-india-ahmedabad-crash-pilots-father-accuses-aaib-of-inappropriate-claims-at-home-alleges-character-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-ahmedabad-crash-pilots-father-accuses-aaib-of-inappropriate-claims-at-home-alleges-character-assassination\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India Ahmedabad crash: Pilot\u2019s father accuses AAIB of inappropriate claims at home; alleges &#8216;character assassination&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The father of late Capt Sumeet Sabharwal has accused Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) officials of making inappropriate and speculative claims about his son&#8217;s role in the Air India Ahmedabad accident during a home visit they paid him last month.<\/p>\n<p>Capt Sabharwal was one of the two pilots on board the June 12 Air India Ahmedabad to London flight AI-171 that crashed soon after take-off. A total of 260 passengers, crew members, and people on the ground were killed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The father of late Capt Sumeet Sabharwal has accused Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) officials of making inappropriate and speculative claims about his son&#8217;s role in the Air India Ahmedabad accident during a home visit they paid him last month. Capt Sabharwal was one of the two pilots on board the June 12 Air India Ahmedabad to London flight AI-171 that crashed soon after take-off. A total of 260 passengers, crew members, and people on the ground were killed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}