Barkat’s daughter revealed the circumstances of his arrest, stating that more than 20 policemen showed up at his doorstep and arrested him.

A preliminary report by AAIB reveals alarming details about the Air India Flight AI171 crash in Ahmedabad, which killed 260. Just after takeoff, both engines lost fuel supply, triggering a failed relight attempt on one engine. Pilots expressed confusion over the fuel cutoff. The Dreamliner crashed nose-up near a medical hostel, with debris scattered widely.

A month after the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad that killed 270 people, a preliminary report into the worst aviation accident in India in decades showed the engines’ fuel cutoff switches shifting from cutoff to run within seconds of each other.