Ahmedabad plane crash: High-level committee to hold first meeting today

The first meeting of the high-level committee set up by the government to investigate the Ahmedabad plane crash will be held today afternoon in New Delhi. The committee will be chaired by the Union Home Secretary. 

The members of the high-level multi-disciplinary committee includes Secretary Ministry of Civil Aviation, Senior Officials from Home Ministry, Officials of Home Department and State Disaster Response Authority of Gujarat, Police Commissioner of Ahmedabad, Director General of Inspection and Safety in the Indian Air Force and Director General of Bureau of Civil Aviation



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The committee will submit its report within three months. The Committee is expected to focus on formulating Standard Operating Procedures for preventing such occurrences in the future. A separate investigation is also being carried out by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau AAIB which is looking into the technical aspects of the crash. Air India’s Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft operating a flight from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick, crashed soon after the take-off on Thursday. Only one person survived out of the 242 people on board the plane.