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The preliminary report on the AI-171 crash raises more questions than answers, revealing fuel cutoff issues but lacking clarity on pilot actions and causes.
Federation of Indian Pilots has strongly criticised The Wall Street Journal for implying pilot error in the Air India AI-171 crash, rejecting claims about fuel switch handling. | One of India's ...
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The deadly Air India crash has renewed a decades-old debate in the aviation industry over installing video cameras to monitor ...
The AAIB report released on July 12 claimed that the London-bound Air India flight had experienced a “fuel cut off” seconds after taking off from Ahmedabad's Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International ...
Certain sections of the international media are repeatedly attempting to draw conclusions through selective and unverified ...
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Why did you cut off?” one of the pilots asked, as the cockpit voice recorder picked up the bewilderment that would come to characterize the worst air tragedy in a decade. The initial probe of Air ...
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The AAIB DG also said that the AAIB will also publish updates of technical and public interest “as and when required”.
The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) on Wednesday dismissed allegations that the captain of Air India Flight AI-171 ...
Investigators later found that the aircraft’s software had mistakenly interpreted the plane as being on the ground, triggering the thrust control malfunction accommodation system, which automatically ...