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Preliminary report into Air India crash released

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Re: Preliminary report into Air India crash released

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Post by rawgabbit »

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       As we just reported, the report says that according to data from the flight recorder both the fuel control switches, which are normally used to switch the engines on or off when on the ground, were moved from the run to the cutoff position shortly after takeoff.  This caused both engines to lose thrust.
The preliminary report suggests this is pilot error.

Re: Preliminary report into Air India crash released

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Post by mallets »

Well, shit. Suicidal?

And this can't possibly be all the audio if the other pilot noticed the switch position, I would expect a lot more cussing and struggle.

So they didn't notice the switch position? The switch was in the right position but not really? Is this a rarely used switch that one might not look at (or know where to look) during regular use?

10 seconds between OFF and ON.

Re: Preliminary report into Air India crash released

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Post by lazharichir »

rawgabbit wrote: post #2

Quote: As we just reported, the report says that according to data from the flight recorder both the fuel control switches, which are normally used to switch the engines on or off when on the ground, were moved from the run to the cutoff position shortly after takeoff. This caused both engines to lose thrust. The preliminary report suggests this is pilot error.

From my (limited) understanding you cannot really switch these off inadvertently as they require a couple of actions in order to be switched off. So it would mean one of the pilots switched these off (and they were a few seconds later switched on again but it was too late).

But there was audio, too, and one pilot asked the other "why did you switch these off" and the second one said "I didn't".

Was there are third one in the jump seat?

Re: Preliminary report into Air India crash released

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Post by rawgabbit »

lazharichir wrote: post #6
rawgabbit wrote: post #2

Quote: As we just reported, the report says that according to data from the flight recorder both the fuel control switches, which are normally used to switch the engines on or off when on the ground, were moved from the run to the cutoff position shortly after takeoff. This caused both engines to lose thrust. The preliminary report suggests this is pilot error.

From my (limited) understanding you cannot really switch these off inadvertently as they require a couple of actions in order to be switched off. So it would mean one of the pilots switched these off (and they were a few seconds later switched on again but it was too late). But there was audio, too, and one pilot asked the other "why did you switch these off" and the second one said "I didn't". Was there are third on…

The report only said the copilot was flying and the pilot was monitoring.
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