India, Dec. 27 -- A government inquiry committee submitted its confidential report on IndiGo's operational crisis Thursday evening, as a separate systemic review found the airline in November employed 891 more pilots than global standards require-revealing that scheduling failures, not crew shortages, were more likely to have triggered the mass cancellations that stranded tens of thousands of passengers earlier this month.

The four-member government inquiry committee is headed by joint director general Sanjay K Bramhane and its report is confidential, officials told HT. The committee was constituted by the DGCA on December 6 to examine the airline's manpower planning, operational failures, and accountability for the disruption that led t...