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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 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.
The Federation of Indian Pilots refutes the Wall Street Journal's claim that pilot error caused the Ahmedabad Air India crash, drawing parallels to a previous Boeing 787 engine failure incident
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 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.
Medical records for an Air India pilot killed in last month’s crash are reportedly now being reviewed by investigators amid reports he’d been suffering from depression and other mental