Air India pilots' 'fatal error' seconds after take off revealed in new report

Pilot error is suspected to be behind last month's Air India crash which killed 260 people, crash investigators claim.

The aircraft, which had only just set off for Gatwick, suddenly crashed into a medical college hostel after taking off from the city of Ahmedabad in June. Investigators were left stunned after one passenger was named as the sole survivor of the crash.

Now, analysis of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s Black Box indicates a "possibility" that the pilots could have made an error while operating the flight. The early assessments indicate no apparent fault with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which went down shortly after takeoff.

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Captain Sumeet Sabharwal was the lead pilot on the journey, with Clive Kunder acting as his co-pilot. The findings of the probe, which is run by the the US National Transportation Safety Board, Federal Aviation Administration, Boeing and GE Aerospace, are starting to be made public. 

British national Vishwash Kumar Ramesh miraculously made it out alive, while 241 people onboard and 29 people on the ground were declared dead.

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