The Air India 171 Crash Survey moves to the senior pilot, indicates the report; The technical hanging angle emerges
It was the first officer who asked the principal captain if he had extinguished the fuel changes, reported a report in the Wall Street Journal who quoted familiar people with the early assessment of US officials of the Air India Airplane accident who resulted in the death of 241 people on board as well as many people on the ground.
According to the WSJ report, the recording of the black box of dialogue between the two pilots indicates that the most experienced captain remained calm while he was turning off the switches while the first officer expressed his surprise, then panicked, asking his senior why he moved the switches of the “ “ “ “ “ “ `
Earlier, a preliminary survey of the office of the India’s airplane accidents (AAIB) identified the dialogue between the pilots but did not specify who said what. According to the AAIB report which had revealed the vocal recordings of the cockpit, a pilot asked: “Why did you cut?” While the other replied: “I did not do it.” The report did not specify whether the shooting of the switches was accidental or deliberate.
The switches were shot in succession to one second of the other according to the AAIB report.
However, a group of pilots in India has raised concerns about prejudices against pilots. The Association of Pilots of Airlines of India (ALPA-India) questioned the lack of transparency in the survey and has raised concerns concerning the AAIB report in terms of pilot error. The group also said there was a secret around the investigation. The ALPA said that “properly qualified personnel was not taken on board for these crucial surveys”. “We believe that the investigation is motivated in one direction assuming the guilt of the pilots and we strongly oppose this line of thought,” said the president of Alfa-India, Captain Sam Thomas.
It should be mentioned that the experienced captain Sumeet Sabharwal had 8,200 hours of flight experience, while the first officer Clive Kundar had a 1,100 -hour flight experience.
Meanwhile, a report in the Indian Express throws light on another possible angle. The investigators would have investigated the clashes that arose in the electrical and software components of the plane, which might have triggered “not ordered” actions.
In fact, a driver driving the same hours of plane before takeoff of the flight of Ahmedabad, had noted a “defect of stabilizer position transducer” in the technical newspaper. The stabilizer position transducer controls the moving from the nose to the plane and transmits the data into the electrical signals to the flight control system.
An official told Daily that it is unlikely that the “defect of the stabilizer position transducer” caused the accident, but this could have caused a failure of multiple sensors.
The manager said that the flight data analysis would focus on the error track noted in the technical newspapers to determine the health of the airplane electrical components and software. According to him, the plane had already experienced two major shots – one was a flight cancellation in December 2024 due to an unresolved electric hook and the other an emergency landing in 2015 caused by an increase in the cabin air compressor.
