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Investing.com -- India has declined an offer from the United Nations aviation agency to include one of its investigators in the probe of the Air India Boeing (NYSE:BA) 787-8 Dreamliner crash that killed 260 people in Ahmedabad on June 12, according to a Reuters report on Thursday.
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) made the unusual move earlier this week by offering to provide investigative assistance without being asked. The ICAO requested that their investigator, who was already in India, be granted observer status in the investigation, but Indian authorities rejected this proposal.
This refusal comes amid criticism from some safety experts regarding delays in analyzing crucial black box data from the crashed aircraft.
The news was first reported by Indian news channel Times Now on Thursday.
The ICAO has previously deployed investigators to assist with certain air disaster investigations, including the downing of a Malaysian plane in 2014 and a Ukrainian jetliner in 2020. However, in those instances, the agency had been specifically requested to provide assistance.