Air India captain ‘cut off’ fuel while co-pilot panicked
Captain of Air India Jet Probably cut off the fuel source US officials believe in Ahmedabad before collapsing.
The first officer who flys Boeing 787-9 questioned the captain why Moved switches to cutting positionAccording to the evaluation of the US land box data.
Wall Street Journal, the first officer was reported to be a surprise and panic while the captain was calm.
Except for 242 people in Boeing 787 Dreamliner, all the aircraft was killed last month when a settled suburban hostel was dived into a settled suburban hostel last month after the departure from Ahmedabad Airport.
Follows A Preliminary Report The Aircraft Accident Research Bureau (AAIB) found that the switches that control the fuel flow to the two engines were closed, which led to a disaster loss of pushing in the departure.
According to the report, one of the pilots asks the “cut off the fuel source in the cockpit sound recording, which is recovered to the other. The other pilot said he didn’t “do”.
It wasn’t clear who said what before. However, resources that review in the USA Cockpit Audio Records The Wall Street told Journal that he was the captain who questioned why he cut the fuel to the engines.
According to the report, the keys moved in succession. After about 10 seconds, the keys were reopened. The report did not say whether the switches were closed or deliberately closed.
Captain, Sumeet Sabharwal and Clive Kundar, the common pilot had more than 9,000 hours of flight time.
On Sunday, Telegraph Air India Crash researchers They are examining Mr. Sabharwal’s medical records Claiming to suffer from depression and mental health problems.
56 -year -old Captain Sabharwal was thinking of leaving the airline to look at his old father after his mother’s death in 2022.
In the moments before the disaster, Mr. Sabharwal released a Mayday call. However, after reaching the maximum height of the aircraft runway, all contact was lost. The plane then fell to the ground and exploded on the effect.
Air India General Manager Campbell Wison said in a staff note that the report triggered a new speculation tour in the media ”.
Wilson said that the report has not made any reason or any suggestions and called on people to avoid early results because the investigation is not over.
However, the Indian media reported that inspectors have examined potential electrical and digital errors that can trigger “without real estate” actions.
“The probe will bring to cutting mode after removing the possibility of fuel control transitions ‘a transition without real estate’.
Just a few hours before the departure, a pilot who flys the same plane from Delhi to Ahmedabad said that a “stabilizer position converter defect” on the technical daily.
The stabilizer position converter is a sensor that controls the upper and down movement of the aircraft’s nose and transmits data to flight control systems. Authorized, the failure was checked and the engineer said that the troubleshooting.
“Fault is a critical issue as it can trigger false answers under flight control, including an unwanted fuel cutting signal,” he said.
The newspaper said there were at least two more similar events on the plane in the weeks before the accident.
One included a fake fuel system warning on the screen of the aircraft control panel. Another was an electrical fault that led to the cancellation of one flight.
The authority added that the aircraft had previously had two major problems, including emergency landing due to a cabin air compressor problem in 2015.
The Indian Pilots Federation expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that the pilot representatives were excluded from the investigation process and said: “We also objected to the way the preliminary report is publicly disclosed and presented.”
The President of the Federation Captain Cs Randhawa said: “The report lacks comprehensive data, as it is published, and seems to rely on an explanatory cockpit sound recordings to propose the pilot error and to question the professional competence and integrity of the flight crew.
“This approach is neither objective nor complete.
The accident was the first deadly accident that included Boeing’s Dreamliner. However, after a series of security and quality problems, the airline had received reputation damage.
Dreamliner, which was put into service in 2011, is popular among commercial airlines and is widely used on international long -distance routes.
