India, July 13 -- Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation Murlidhar Mohol on Saturday said no conclusions could be drawn yet from the preliminary report by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) on the June 12 Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, noting that the conversation between the pilots was too brief to determine responsibility.

The London-bound Boeing 787 Dreamliner had crashed into a medical college hostel in Ahmedabad moments after takeoff, killing 241 of the 242 people onboard and 19 on the ground.

Mohol said the AAIB, an autonomous agency under the Civil Aviation Ministry, had submitted its initial findings within a month of the crash. He stressed that the investigation was still ongoing.

"This is only a prelim...