Foreign media blamed for ‘repeatedly attempting to draw conclusions through selective and unverified reporting’

Sumeet Sabharwal, 56, was the captain on the flight, while Clive Kunder, 32, was the co-pilot who was flying the plane. Together, the two pilots had more than 19,000 hours of flight experience - nearly half of it on the Boeing 787. Both had passed all pre-flight health checks before the crash.

Civil Aviation Minister, Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, defends AAIB's handling of the Air India crash probe and criticizes speculative western media reports.