Posted on 06/12/2025 12:58:28 PM PDT by DFG
A passenger who reportedly flew on the doomed Air India jet just two hours before it crashed, killing more than 200 passengers and crew, posted shocking video in which he says “nothing” was working in the cabin — including lights, air conditioning and the seat-back display screens.
The eerie footage was purportedly taken inside the Boeing 787 Dreamliner on its second-to-last flight as it flew from Delhi to Ahmedabad, hours before it crashed shortly after takeoff en route to London’s Gatwick airport.
“I was in the same damn flight two hours before it took off from Ahmedabad,” social media user Akash Vatsa wrote on X.
“I came in this from Delhi to Ahmedabad. Noticed unusual things in the place,” he went on, adding that he had filmed the apparently malfunctioning aircraft so that he could share the footage with Air India later.
“The AC is not working at all. And, as usual, your TV screens are also not working, neither is this button for calling the cabin crew,” Vatsa can be heard saying in the video.
He also complained of “sweating like hell” due to a lack of AC, adding that this was why “Air India is considered one of the worst airlines in the world.”
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like the ship that crashed into the bridges, electrical malfunctions. Lights going on and off before it hit.
That’s a pretty disturbing video.
Dead men do tell tales.
An obviously non-airworthy jet getting ready to kill all on board.
The 787 has triple redundancy on it’s electrical and critical systems. Both engines have turbroalts and dedicated secondary generators for critical.systems too. They have an APU as the third independent system and as a last resort a RAT air powered turbine that pops out,plus batteries for the flight computers.
Someone must have royally screwed the maintenance up on multiple systems over an extended period of time. That’s criminal negligence if proven.
The vid of the actual crash shows flaps either not deployed or at F1 setting. Depending on the air temps and density should have been at flaps 3+ hot low slow and no flaps is a recipe for disaster. Loss of life is always tragic , loss due to negligence or pilot incompetence is worse. The 787 has had a flaw less record this is its first full hull loss with fatalities.
I think the Flaps and other Control Surfaces are Servo Controlled on the 787.
Do You know if I’m correct ?
Or sabotaged.
Software failure?
Control surfaces are triple redundant hydraulic movement with electrical controls of the valves there is no cables to the flight deck so no manual reversion like a 737. This is how every Airbus is btw.
Double pumps, and a RAT turbine plus emergency battery bus can be tied to one of the emergency electrical pumps trading battery bus time for the flight computers for hydraulic control time. With the APU running you have full power and authority , with the RAT you have both electrics and hydraulics. The RAT would have been visible in the crash video so it was not deployed.
https://oat.aero/2024/01/21/boeing-787-hydraulic-power-system/
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Poor people.
It looked like it lost power and glided down.
I saw video where the entertainment and A/C systems were offline on the prior flight. How do multiple, independent systems fail?
Someone stealing parts (chips or boards) from its systems?
From a reply at the link...
“Former Navy pilot here. Those ancillary systems would be separate electrical busses. Irrelevant to flight controls and engines, but good NY Post click-bait.”
From the same article: “Surveillance footage shows what appears to be a cloud of dust or smoke billowing from the bottom of the aircraft as it takes off seconds before it disappears behind some adjoining buildings.”
FOD?
Wow, good angle those engines are clearly turning and burning the wash is visible on the rotation and pitch up. Flaps are up for sure from that angle. Unless they were super light and doing a short hop with minimal fuel they took off not in standard take off config looks like pilot error. Loft was lost as soon as the dropped the nose and it just settled right into controlled flight into terrain. Sad
Does this help right after V2 and being 600ft off the ground?
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