Posted on 07/12/2025 5:16:46 AM PDT by jerod
Fuel to the engines of the Air India plane involved in a deadly crash was cut off moments after take-off, a preliminary investigation report has found.
In recovered cockpit voice recordings, the report said one of the pilots can be heard asking "why did you cut off?" - to which the other pilot replied he "did not do so".
The London-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed less than a minute after taking off on 12 June from Ahmedabad airport in western India, killing 260 people, most of them passengers. One British national miraculously survived the crash.
The investigation led by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) is expected to produce a more detailed report in 12 months...
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Oh no I di’int! Oh yes you di’id!
Exactly. Once again, I wonder if there was someone in the jump seat.
It is hard to glide a plane the size of a 787. It went down like a rock when the engines ran out of fuel.
It could not have been remote control shutoff because both switches were moved back to the on position 9seconds after they were moved to the off position. The fuel was then restored to the engines and the APU began the relight process. Engine one spooled back up and began producing thrust. Engine 2 had just started spooling up but it was too late. If a remote control only controlled the solenoids then the switches would have never been in the off position and the switches would have not overridden the solenoid remote control. Someone on the flight control deck manually turned the switches off. The question is who and why. This was an intentional act by someone on the flight deck.
Yes, big jets can glide. At 30,000feet, they can glide about 100 miles (depending on wind, temp, weight and other factors). But at that low altitude, not very far at all.
When I first heard about this, the very first question that instantly popped into my mind was this: Were either of them a Muslim.
Oh have to pull them out too? Makes sense
[This suggests deliberate action.]
Sure sounds that way doesn’t it? SJS or someone decided to leave and take others...sigh
I’m reminded of that German passenger plane
Jihadi in the cockpit?
Great. We suffer through TSA crap and the flight crew kills us.
[both switches were moved back to the on position 9seconds after they were moved to the off position. The fuel was then restored to the engines and the APU began the relight process. Engine one spooled back up and began producing thrust. Engine 2 had just started spooling up but it was too late.]
good info
9 seconds - wow
Right now, that is the only possible explanation.
Clive Ratanjeev Kunder, born in the coastal region of Karnataka, was the pilot flying, while Captain Sabharwal was the pilot monitoring.
They were shut off. Well, it could be a rumor in as much as all news is “rumor” to one degree or another.
Again, I’m guessing one of the pilots is a muslim, or dealing with a really bad divorce. My money is on “intentional.” But that’s just my opinion.
I apply Occam’s razor to this.
Yes have to be pulled and turned
It would seem so - 9 seconds feels like an eternity just counting it off
Makes me wonder if there was a battle between 2 individuals but we’ll not know unless the CVR survived (seems someone made a reference)
sigh
I wouldn’t say that quite as definitively as you did. But if I was a betting man, I’d bet a sizeable sum on that.
Oh never mind
[In recovered cockpit voice recordings, the report said one of the pilots can be heard asking “why did you cut off?” - to which the other pilot replied he “did not do so”.]
never mind - struggling to read but I found the note
This wasn’t pilot error.
Looks like mass murder/suicide.
However, it is curious that when one pilot asked the other pilot, “Why did you do that?”, the other pilot said, “I didn’t”. Perhaps in his mind he was raising the flaps when in reality he was shutting off the fuel.
If deliberate then they waited for take off, just enough
altitude and speed to guarantee destruction but insufficient
recovery altitude
If it’s SJS we may never be told - similar to Egypt Air 990
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