Air India, WSJ and Ahmedabad crash
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Al Jazeera on MSNWhat happened to the fuel-control switches on doomed Air India flight 171?According to a report published on Wednesday by The Wall Street Journal quoting sources close to United States officials’ early assessment of evidence, the black box audio recording of the last conversation between the two pilots indicates that the captain might have turned off the switches controlling the flow of fuel to the plane’s engines.
Air India to resume some flights following ‘safety pause’ in aftermath of Ahmedabad crash - The partial restoration of flights follows ‘precautionary checks’ on the airline’s Boeing 787 aircraft
The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) has criticised The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) for its article on the Air India crash in Ahmedabad. The WSJ claimed the crash was due to a 'pilot's mistake' involving fuel control switches.
The deadly Air India crash last month has renewed a decades-old debate in the aviation industry over installing video cameras monitoring airline pilot actions to complement the cockpit voice and flight data recorders already used by accident investigators.
NEW DELHI, July 14 (Reuters) - A preliminary investigation into the crash of an Air India passenger jet last month that killed 260 people raises additional questions about the incident and the investigation is far from over, Air India's CEO said in a memo on Monday.
The Federation of Indian Pilots raised significant concerns about the preliminary findings related to the Air India flight AI-171 crash in Ahmedabad, criticising the selective presentation of cockpit recordings that imply pilot error.
The announcement comes a few days after the preliminary report into the AI 171 crash came out. The accident claimed 260 lives—241 of the 242 people on board and 19 on ground.