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"Not about witch hunt to blame pilots but ...": Aviation Safety consultant
Updated : 11 months, 2 weeks ago IST
"My point is very simple. When you don't have the engines in the first place, when the engines have failed, when fuel is not going to the engine, why does the point of fuel cut-off come up? Now what they're trying to do is put the blame deliberately on the pilots and exonerate the OEM (Origi
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"Fuel switches moved without input, points to possible glitch": Federation
Updated : 11 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 : 11 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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"Air India can't cause such negligence": Cabin crew's mother on AAIB preli
Updated : 11 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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Police crackdown on PTI as CM Gandapur's convoy reaches Lahore
Updated : 11 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Punjab police took several Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers into custody on Saturday as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur arrived in Lahore.
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Former pilot points to chip malfunction, not pilot error in initial report
Updated : 11 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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Vijay Rupani's son Rushabh remembers his father, thanks PM Modi, Amit Shah
Updated : 11 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Rushabh Rupani, son of former Gujarat Chief Minister late Vijay Rupani, expressed deep gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for their unwavering support following the tragic Air India plane crash on June 12, which claimed his father's life.
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CVR recording establishes that pilots didn't turn off fuel switches: Aviat
Updated : 11 months, 2 weeks ago IST
"It is a fact-finding report, and it has put some rumours to rest. CVR recording has clearly established that the pilots did not turn off fuel switches. A technical malfunction seems more likely. We should congratulate the Civil Aviation Minister and the Indian government for deciding to con
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"Cryptic in many ways": Expert Mark D Martin on Air India crash preliminar
Updated : 11 months, 2 weeks ago IST
"It is the initial report, and it is quite cryptic in many ways. It says a lot of points that don't add up. If there were an engine failure, that is only when the RAT deploys. When the RAT deploys, there is only one course to restart the engine," Martin told ANI.
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Deployment of RAT indicates engine failure: Commercial Pilot Rajiv Pratap
Updated : 11 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 : 11 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 : 11 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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