FIP President Randhawa trashes pilot error report in Air India crash, calls WSJ article 'misleading'

Mumbai: July 17, 2025, (ANI): Captain CS Randhawa, President of the Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP), strongly condemned the Wall Street Journal article that attributed the Air India crash to pilot error. He said, "...Nowhere in the report has it been mentioned that the fuel control switch was turned off due to the pilot's mistake. I condemn the article by the Wall Street Journal. They said it was the pilot's mistake. They have not read the report properly, and we will take action against them through FIP. We had issued a press statement yesterday that no channel, commentator or president of any agency should give such an opinion that has no basis...Indian pilots are among the best in the world. I did not give my opinion to the Wall Street Journal, which had approached me as well, because I am against this American media. They are deliberately giving their own opinion, their own views from this report, while there is nothing like this in the report. So I very strongly condemn this report of the Wall Street Journal and we will take action on it."