The captain of the Air India plane vowed to return home soon to look after his elderly dad. Just hours before one of India’s worst aviation disasters that killed 260 people, the captain, Sumeet Sabharwal, 56, had reportedly told the security guard in his apartment complex to look after his elderly father, who lived with him.

Captain Steve Scheibner, a seasoned pilot and aviation expert, believes that the deadly crash was the result of human action within the cockpit. Insisting that the aircraft itself was not to blame, he suggested that there was a "human hand" behind the accident.

According to a report published on Wednesday by The Wall Street Journal quoting sources close to United States officials’ early assessment of evidence, the black box audio recording of the last conversation between the two pilots indicates that the captain might have turned off the switches controlling the flow of fuel to the plane’s engines.

Shashi Tharoor's big shoutout for the Tata group airline comes amid US media reports on the ongoing investigations into the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad that killed 241 people on board.

A guard at Sumeet Sabharwal's home has revealed the pilot's haunting final words before he took off for the doomed Gatwick-bound flight that killed 260 people when it crashed

A man who flew on an Air India plane before the crash shared his experience after booking a first-class ticket. He showed a video of what he saw in the plane.

Officials said that both pilots had successfully passed the Class I medical examination within the past two years, a test that assesses their mental and physical fitness.