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.

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

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.

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.

An analysis of the cockpit voice recorder from the Air India flight that crashed in Ahmedabad last month reportedly showed the younger co-pilot asking the captain why he had turned off the fuel switches.

International airlines from South Korea and India are preparing to inspect its Boeing fleets following findings from the Air India crash investigation.