Air India crash probe focuses on actions of plane’s captain, Wall Street Journal reports

By David Shepardson and Dan Catchpole

Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, a dialogue record between the two pilots of the collapsed Air India flight last month, the collapsed Air India flight last month shows that the two pilots cut off the fuel flow to the plane’s engines.

The newspaper knew the early assessments of the US officials in the investigation of the accident on 12 June in Ahmedabad, who killed 260 people.

In the report, the first officer flying Boeing 787 Dreamliner asked the more experienced captain to the “cut” position after being removed from the runway, the “cut” position.

The two pilots were Captain Sabharwal and the first officer Clive Kunder, who had a total flight experience of 15,638 hours and 3.403 hours respectively.

India’s AAIB, General Directorate of Civil Aviation, Ministry of Civil Aviation, Boeing and Air India, Reuters’ Wall Street Journal report did not respond to requests for comments.

On Saturday, a preliminary report on the accident published by the Indian Aircraft Investigation Bureau (AAIB), said the fuel switches switched to a second part immediately after the departure, but did not say how they were translated.

Later, a pilot cockpit sound recorder was heard asking why he had cut the fuel. “The other pilot said he didn’t do it.” He said.

Without the fuel flowing to the engines, the plane connected to London began to lose pushing and sinking. Immediately after the plane was removed from the ground, closed -circuit TV images showed a spare energy source called a Ram Air turbine showing the loss of power from engines.

In the accident area, both fuel switchs were found in the running position and there were symptoms that both engines were shown again before the low altitude collapse.

Air India CEO Campbell Wilson, Campbell Wilson, said that the preliminary report could not find mechanical or maintenance error and all the necessary maintenance was done.

AAIB’s preliminary report did not have any security suggestions for Boeing or engine manufacturer GE.

After the report was published, the US Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing, a document seen by Reuters and have information about the issue, has issued special notifications that it was safe to lock the fuel switch on Boeing aircraft.

(Reporting by David Shepardson in Washington and Dan Catchpole in Seattle; Additional reports by Anusha Shah in Bengaluru;