India, Sept. 17 -- The chief of the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau G V G Yugandhar will meet the civil aviation secretary on Wednesday, according to sources.

This comes hours after the father of Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, in a letter to the secretary of civil aviation ministry and the head of the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, slammed the crash report of Air India flight 171.

Sumeet Sabharwal was one of the two pilots on AI171, which crashed soon after take-off from Ahmedabad on June 12.

The pilot's 91-year-old father, Pushkaraj Sabharwal, urged the government to order a formal inquiry into the accident. He further alleged that selective leaks from the preliminary investigation had also led to his son's reputation being...