Prior to any official report on the progress of the investigation, the father of Captain Sumeet Sabharwal of Air India is trying to defend the good name of his dead son after the Boeing 787 aircraft crash that occurred in June 2025 and claimed 260 lives. Although the early reports indicated that the engines had stopped receiving fuel because the control switches were put on "cut-off" immediately after take-off, rumors that pointed a finger at the pilot led to intense condemnation from the pilots' associations, AAIB, and India's Supreme Court.