New Details In Air India Crash Probe Shift Focus To Plane’s Captain, WSJ Reports
July 17 (Reuters) – Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday that a dialogue record between the two pilots of the Air India flight last month shows that the captain cuts fuel flow to the plane 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 the Boeing BA.N 787 Dreamliner asked the more experienced captain and why he carried the fuel switches to the “cutting” position after being removed from the runway.
The two pilots were the captain Sumeet Sabharwal and the First Officer Clive Kunder. Total flying experience 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.
A preliminary report India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) said that on Saturday, the fuel switches switched to a second part immediately after the departure, but did not say how they were turned.
Later, a pilot cockpit sound recorder was heard asking why he had cut the fuel. “The other pilot said he didn’t do it,” the report said in the report.
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.
One internal note On Monday, Air India CEO 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 is Boeing or motor manufacturer Ge.N.
US Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing after the report was published Special notifications It is safe to lock the fuel switch on Boeing aircraft, a document seen by the Reuters and four sources with information on the subject.
(Reporting by David Shepardson in Washington and Dan Catchpole in Seattle; Additional reports by Anusha Shah in Bengaluru;
