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Air India 171 Update: Fuel Cutoff Switches in 'Cutoff' Position according to WSJ
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| 07/11/2025
| Captain Steeeve
Posted on 07/11/2025 12:39:50 PM PDT by TexasKamaAina
The Wall Street Journal has just released a report that changes the direction of the Air India 171 investigation. According to sources familiar with the black box data, both fuel cutoff switches were found in the “cutoff” position—meaning the engines were intentionally shut down.
This is a sobering and deeply troubling revelation. In this video, Captain Steeeve takes a measured approach as he walks through what this switch position means, how it affects the engines, and what it might suggest about the final moments of the flight.
As always, our goal is to honor the truth, respect those affected, and help viewers understand complex aviation systems in moments of crisis.
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Turns out Captain Steeve, besides being a former Navy flight instructor, is a doctorate level counselor. He explains the procedures for cutting off fuel and how the operation of the switches make it impossible for one of them - let alone both - to be inadvertantly or mistakenly moved to the cutoff position.
To: TexasKamaAina; 04-Bravo; 1FASTGLOCK45; 1stFreedom; 2ndDivisionVet; 2sheds; 60Gunner; 6AL-4V; ...
AVIATION PING!...............
Fuel cutoff switch in the off position?
That’s not good................
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posted on
07/11/2025 12:43:17 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: TexasKamaAina
One thing’s for sure....many,many,many people will be doing everything they can to blame Boeing for the crash.
To: Red Badger
4
posted on
07/11/2025 12:44:43 PM PDT
by
z3n
(Kakistocracy)
To: TexasKamaAina
5
posted on
07/11/2025 12:46:22 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: TexasKamaAina
Priceline special
Germanwings
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6
posted on
07/11/2025 12:47:24 PM PDT
by
RockyTx
To: Red Badger
Nope, glider-mode is definitely not good.
7
posted on
07/11/2025 12:49:29 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
To: TexasKamaAina
I wonder what the background of the pilot and co pilot would reveal.
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posted on
07/11/2025 12:56:45 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: TexasKamaAina
The fuel was was deliberately shut off. Where are these switches located? Which side - left or right? Anyone know?
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posted on
07/11/2025 12:57:57 PM PDT
by
virgil
(The evil that men do lives after them )
To: TexasKamaAina
Does one need to operate those switches as part of an engine restart procedure?
To: TexasKamaAina; Zen
Maybe there was a shift change during maintenance and nobody mentioned the switches to the maintenance crew coming on shift?
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posted on
07/11/2025 1:01:28 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: RockyTx
Egypt Air 990
Malaysian Airlines 370
12
posted on
07/11/2025 1:02:08 PM PDT
by
libh8er
To: Red Badger
First rule of electrical engineering: Plug it in.
Second rule of electrical engineering: Turn the switch ON.
13
posted on
07/11/2025 1:02:37 PM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: BenLurkin
So...sabotage.
Yikes.-
Maybe , but cycling the fuel cutoffs is part of an emergency engine restart.
One of the anomalies on this flight was that the 787 took up almost all the runway before lift off which could mean engine problems
Need to have the data recorders to verify that fully functional engines were operating at full power before the cut offs were pulled.
Does not look good for sure.
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posted on
07/11/2025 1:03:44 PM PDT
by
rdcbn1
(TV )
To: TexasKamaAina
Depriving the airplane of fuel was just part of the leftists’ program to stop using fossil fuels
a good thing they tell us
so... why all the fuss?
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posted on
07/11/2025 1:04:36 PM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
To: virgil
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posted on
07/11/2025 1:05:08 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: Gay State Conservative
One thing’s for sure....many,many,many people will be doing everything they can to blame Boeing for the crash.The whole summary, so far, is that the CREW intentionally shut the engines off. This has absolutely nothing to do with Boeing.
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posted on
07/11/2025 1:06:08 PM PDT
by
pfflier
To: virgil
The fuel was was deliberately shut off. Where are these switches located? Which side - left or right? Anyone know?Center console just below the throttle quadrant levers. Both pilots had equal access to the switches.
This now looks like a suicide with a lot of people taken along with the perp.
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posted on
07/11/2025 1:09:22 PM PDT
by
pfflier
To: BenLurkin
So...sabotage.No...suicide.
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posted on
07/11/2025 1:10:08 PM PDT
by
pfflier
To: Red Badger
“Fuel cutoff switch in the off position?”
Fuel cutoff switchES in the off position?
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posted on
07/11/2025 1:11:02 PM PDT
by
TexasGator
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