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India’s aviation regulator DGCA has flagged around 100 safety issues at Air India, including crew fatigue and training lapses. Of those, seven were Level-1 violations.

Air India is under fire from the DGCA for 29 safety violations, including pilot fatigue and poor training. The warning comes soon after a deadly crash in Ahmedabad.

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The Wall Street Journal has again tried to shift focus from Boeing by suggesting pilot error in the Air India AI171 crash. But the report adds no new facts and only rehashes the preliminary findings already released by Indian investigators.

Despite earlier warning investigators not to scapegoat pilots, Captain Ranganathan now claims the Air India Flight 171 crash involved intentional interference. Veteran pilot Captain Randhawa, however, calls the preliminary report vague and inconclusive.

Air India informed investigators that while it was in full compliance with all mandatory airworthiness directives and service bulletins for the aircraft, it had not conducted inspections suggested in the 2018 SAIB since they were advisory, and not mandatory.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued warnings in the past about certain Boeing models being vulnerable to what is known as “fuel lock” or inadvertent fuel cut-off issues, caused not by human error, but by faults in the machine.

BBC, Reuters, Daily Mail and others are shaping the narrative in a way that blames the pilots for the Air India plane crash. Without waiting for a full investigation, these international publications are picking selective details from the preliminary report and suggesting that the accident was due to human error.

A deadly crash in Ahmedabad, killing 241 people, has intensified scrutiny on Air India. In recent weeks, the airline has also faced mid-air technical issues, delays, and rising passenger complaints, sparking questions about its safety, service, and management under the Tata Group.

The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) Lab in New Delhi, is currently working intensively to examine data retrieved from the black boxes of Air India Flight AI-171, which crashed in Ahmedabad earlier this month.