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"No mechanical or maintenance issues found," says Air India CEO on AI-171
Updated : 8 months, 1 week ago IST
Air India CEO Campbell Wilson has urged calm and focus following the release of the preliminary investigation report into the AI171 accident, emphasising that the report found no mechanical or maintenance issues with the aircraft involved in the June 12 tragedy.
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No mechanical, maintenance issues found in AI-171 crashed plane: Air India
Updated : 8 months, 1 week ago IST
Air India CEO and Managing Director Campbell Wilson on Monday highlighted that Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) preliminary report on AI-171 plane crash found no mechanical or maintenance issues with the aircraft and urged people not to draw any "premature conclusions" before th
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Taiwan reports heightened Chinese incursions around its territory
Updated : 8 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defence (MND) said that it detected 17 Chinese military aircraft, eight naval vessels, and one official ship operating around Taiwan until 6 am (local time) on Monday.
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"Fuel switches moved without input, points to possible glitch": Federation
Updated : 8 months, 2 weeks ago IST
President of the Federation of Indian Pilots, Charanvir Singh Randhawa raised serious concerns over the preliminary investigation report released by the AAIB, regarding the Air India plane crash on June 12. He questioned the absence of clarity on key cockpit decisions and pointed to possible
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"Not satisfied": AI171 crash victim's father demands deeper probe, stricte
Updated : 8 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The father of Sanket Goswami, a 19-year-old student who died in last month's Air India AI171 crash, stated that he was "not satisfied" with the preliminary investigation report released by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), and requested the government to conduct a "thorou
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11 Chinese aircraft, 7 naval vessels, 1 ship detected near Taiwan
Updated : 8 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defence (MND) said that it detected 11 Chinese military aircraft, seven naval vessels, and 1 official ship operating around Taiwan until 6 am (local time) on Sunday.
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"Air India can't cause such negligence": Cabin crew's mother on AAIB preli
Updated : 8 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Pramila Patil, mother of crew member Maithili Patil, who died in the ill-fated Air India plane crash on June 12, reacted to the preliminary report of the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) and said Air India can't cause such negligence.
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Former pilot points to chip malfunction, not pilot error in initial report
Updated : 8 months, 2 weeks ago IST
A report released by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau following the fatal crash of Air India flight AI171 indicated a chip malfunction as a cause of the crash, a former pilot told Reuters on Saturday.
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Deployment of RAT indicates engine failure: Commercial Pilot Rajiv Pratap
Updated : 8 months, 2 weeks ago IST
"This automatically happens in an aircraft when there is a twin-engine failure. So this, as indicated in the report, has happened, and both the initial stages of APU have started, and the RAT has deployed, so it indicates the engine failure has taken... When you start losing the aircraft, th
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"Pilots did everything right": Captain Umang N Jani on AI 171's crash repo
Updated : 8 months, 2 weeks ago IST
"The pilot did everything right. It is part of the training that when engines fail, you attempt to restart them. The report also suggests that the fuel switch is in the run position. This aircraft has an FADEC (Full Authority Digital Engine Control) system in place. When you start the engine
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Premature to assume human error: Captain Prashant Dhalla on Air India cras
Updated : 8 months, 2 weeks ago IST
"We have studied the startle effect under human factors. This can be a situation where, due to the startle effect, pilots can do things inadvertently. This is one of the possibilities, which might be a theory, that an electrical failure occurred in the aircraft. In that situation, the pilots
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"AI 171 crash report leaves many doubts": Air Marshal (Retd) Sanjeev Kapoo
Updated : 8 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Reacting to the preliminary findings of the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), retired Air Marshal Sanjeev Kapoor has questioned the unexplained engine and electrical failures highlighted in the report, saying it "leaves many doubts" and demands a deeper technical probe into the
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