The Tom Sawyer Principle (Politics)

[Mick Harper]

You may remember the Air India crash of June 12th, 2025 just after the Boeing 787 Dreamliner had taken off from Ahmedabad. The one where one passenger, a Brit Indian on his way to Gatwick, walked away unscathed but nobody else survived.

The date is significant because by world aviation rules, the final report on the crash has to be published 'within a year' and they've just announced it won't be. This may only be because India is notorious for getting anything official done on time. But they are also notorious for not accepting blame for anything Indian i.e. pilot error and bad maintenance.

So it looks like they're having difficulty pinning this one on Boeing. (Though that's my guess since the Dreamliner has a track record of problems with fuel cutoff switches.) However there's an AE angle. I keep looking but nobody ever mentions the landing gear hadn't been retracted.