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Air India crash probe reveals pilot cut fuel flow to engines

Cs news1 year ago03 mins

Investing.com — India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau released a preliminary report Friday on the Air India Flight 171 crash that occurred in Ahmedabad on June 12, revealing that one of the pilots moved fuel switches to CUTOFF position shortly after takeoff. According to the cockpit voice recording cited in the report, one pilot was heard…

India finds engine switch movement in fatal Air India crash, no immediate action for Boeing or GE

Cs news1 year ago06 mins

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…