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New Delhi: The crash of Air India Flight 171, a scheduled international passenger flight from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick Airport on June 12, 2025, was one of the biggest aviation accidents in history. The flight had 12 crew members and 230 passengers on board, and only 1 passenger survived.
An aviation lawyer by profession, Mike Andrews of the US-based Beasley Allen Law Firm is in Ahmedabad for two days to meet the families of the crash victims. The firm is representing the kin of more than 130 people who died on board the flight.
According to a report by the Times of India, Andrews has said the airplane crash must be investigated thoroughly. He said that the visit of the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) India team to Washington to meet with the members of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) shows the AAIB officials have "something significant to talk about".
He added that they need much more data from the crash to arrive at a conclusion. They have flagged the water seepage on board the flight, which affected its electrical system. He said that the survivor mentioned several signs, like flickering lights and green lights turning on, which suggest there was probably an electrical problem.
In the city to meet the kin of crash victims, Andrews asked, "How do they pay their bills if they've lost the primary breadwinner in their home or their family, or if children have lost both parents? Grief is not linear. It is a daily struggle for these families. And for them, for the families that I represent, again, they are every day asking for answers."
