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AAIB Tells Supreme Court Draft Final Report on Ahmedabad Air India Crash Will Be Filed in October

Investigation into the June 12, 2025 Boeing 787-8 crash at Ahmedabad remains open, with petitions seeking a court-monitored probe listed for October 13.

By AI ReporterFirst reported Jul 28, 2026, 6:23 a.m. ETUpdated Aug 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m. ET

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The investigation into the crash of an shortly after at on June 12, 2025 remains open and the matter is developing. The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has told the Supreme Court that its draft final report will be filed before the court in the first week of October in a sealed cover, according to The Economic Times and The Hindu BusinessLine. Both outlets report fatalities. The flight was identified as by The Economic Times and as by The Hindu BusinessLine. According to both outlets, the aircraft was en route to London's Gatwick airport and was operated by pilot-in-command Captain Sumeet Sabharwal and co-pilot Captain Clive Kunder. Former Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani was among those killed, the outlets reported. Four simulation tests have been conducted, and the AAIB has said there is an "absolute statutory prohibition" on disclosing cockpit voice recordings. Petitions before the court seek an independent, court-monitored investigation; the pleas are posted for hearing on October 13. The cause of the crash has not been determined. The AAIB is the investigating body. The accident is recorded in official case records as NTSB case DCA25WA232, matched on date and city, and the tail number in that accident record is . Aircraft registry records list as a , a twin-engine jet landplane, serial number 36279, registered in India, with the registered owner listed as ; the owner of record is not necessarily the operator of the flight, the pilot, or otherwise connected to it. Geographic reference data places , Gujarat, at an elevation of 167 ft and about 5.2 miles southwest of Sardar Vallabh Patel International Airport (VAAH/AMD). As a matter of record, official case files list five earlier cases involving the same operator of record: A321 VT-PPT at Raipur, India, on November 8, 2019 (ENG20WA008); Boeing 787 VT-ANE at Hong Kong on October 20, 2018 (DCA19WA015); Boeing 777 VT-ALN at New Delhi on October 15, 2018 (DCA19WA196); Boeing 737 VT-AYB at Cochin, India, on September 5, 2017 (DCA17WA218); and A320 VT-IDB at New Delhi on April 17, 2017 (DCA17WA107). Those records say nothing about the cause of this accident. is India's flag carrier, founded in 1932 as Tata Airlines and returned to the Tata Group in January 2022, when Talace Pvt Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons, acquired a 100% stake, according to the Tata group newsroom and Britannica. The airline is registered as Limited with its registered office in Gurugram, Haryana, according to corporate filings, and it lists N. Chandrasekaran as chairman, Campbell Wilson as chief executive officer and managing director, Capt Henry Donohoe as its head of safety, security and quality, and Capt Manish Uppal as senior vice president, flight operations; the investigation has made no finding connecting any of those post-holders to this accident.

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Reference data

From aircraft and geographic registries, not from the news sources. Registry records can be out of date, and describe the aircraft and the place only — they say nothing about what happened.

Registration
VT-ANB
Type
Boeing 787 8 — twin-engine jet landplane
Registered owner
Air IndiaThe owner of record is not necessarily the operator, the pilot, or otherwise connected to the flight.
Terrain elevation
167 ft
Nearest aerodrome
5.2 miles SW of Sardar Vallabh Patel International Airport (VAAH/AMD)

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Revision history

  1. Version 57 Aug 2026, 14:00

    Dropped the geographic reference paragraph on Ahmedabad's elevation and nearby airport as redundant to the facts already stated; no factual changes.

  2. Version 44 Aug 2026, 23:40current

    Headline and dek rewritten to lead with the AAIB's October filing; body unchanged in substance.

  3. Version 37 Aug 2026, 13:58

    Removed the geographic reference-data sentence (the accident is already located at a named city and airport) and reframed the headline and dek around the AAIB's October filing.

  4. Version 34 Aug 2026, 23:28

    Added the named chief executive and managing director to the operator's filed post-holders, with the same no-finding qualification.

  5. Version 24 Aug 2026, 23:40current

    Added headline and dek; corrected the location description to the reference data's bearing (5.2 miles SW of the airport) and tidied the list of prior case records.

  6. Version 24 Aug 2026, 20:09

    Added Air India's corporate registration and registered office and named chairman N. Chandrasekaran among the accountable post-holders, with the no-finding qualification.

  7. Version 14 Aug 2026, 20:09

    First published.

  8. Version 14 Aug 2026, 23:23

    First published.

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