By David Shepardson and Dan Catchpole (Reuters) -A cockpit recording of dialogue between the two pilots of the Air India flight that crashed last month indicates the captain cut the flow of fuel to the plane’s engines, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The newspaper cited people familiar with U.S. officials’ early assessment of…
By Allison Lampert and Aditya Kalra (Reuters) -A preliminary report into the Air India crash that killed 260 people last month showed three seconds after taking off, the plane’s engines fuel cutoff switches almost simultaneously flipped from run to cutoff, starving the engines of fuel. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner immediately began to lose thrust and…
After a recent Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, three India-bound Boeing 787 Dreamliners returned to their origin. Air India’s Hong Kong- Delhi flight, British Airways London-Chennai flight , and Lufthansa’s Frankfurt-Hyderabad flight were forced toreturn to their origin after takeoff. Last week, an Air India flight to London, using the Boeing 787-8 aircraft, crashed…
India launched a formal investigation into the crash of London-bound Air India flight 171 at Ahmedabad airport on Thursday, with international teams rushing to assist as the incident involved an American plane and more than 50 UK nationals as victims. Security personnel stand at the crash site after an Air India aircraft, bound for London’s…