Air India captain may have cut fuel to engines
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Tata Sons has established a ₹500-crore trust to support families impacted by the Air India AI171 crash in Ahmedabad, which claimed 260 lives. The trust will offer ₹1 crore compensation per deceased, aid the injured and first responders,
Calling recent media reports on Air India Ahmedabad crash "premature and speculative," the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has urged the media and public to wait for the final report from the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB),
Air India will resume some international flights in August following the fatal crash of flight AI171 in Ahmedabad last month.On Tuesday (15 July), the airline announced the “partial restoration” of schedules that were reduced during a “safety pause”.
‘Premature, speculative’, says US probe agency NTSB chief on Air India Ahmedabad crash media reports
The US National Transportation Safety Board chief supported the recent public appeal issued by India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau against speculation around the ongoing air crash investiga
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.
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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.
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.
A Golden Chassis is a specialised tool used to recover data from damaged flight recorders. It consists of an identical, undamaged unit of the same model as the affected recorder and is used to interfa