Aviation Minister Blasts Western Media Over Air India Crash Report

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Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu hit out at Western media for distorting facts around the Air India Flight AI‑171 crash. He said the government trusts the Indian investigation agency AAIB and urged everyone to await the final report instead of jumping to conclusions about pilot error or mechanical failure.

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00:00I have seen multiple articles, myself, I have seen multiple articles not only by the Indian

00:08media but also the western media trying to promote their own narrative, their own viewpoint

00:13and I can say this to the house and through you to the people of this country also that

00:17the AIB has a very definitive, thorough, rule-based process.

00:22They are very transparently looking into the process right now and they are totally unbiased.

00:28This also I can say that the AIB is totally unbiased and looking into the facts.

00:33Now there can be many questions also, I have seen multiple articles, myself, I have seen

00:37multiple articles not only by the Indian media but also the western media trying to promote

00:42their own narrative, their own viewpoint, their own kind of consideration but I have to tell

00:49you that the way we are seeing the investigation is through the facts.

00:52We want to stand by the truth, not what is happening with the pilots or not what is happening

00:57with the Boeing or not what is happening with the Air India or any other stakeholder which

01:02is this.

01:03We want to stand by the truth, we want to find out what exactly happened and that is only going

01:08to be coming out once the final report has been placed.

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