Air India 171 crash probe shifts to senior pilot, says report; technical snag angle emerges

This was the first officer who asked the great leader about whether he had extinguished the fuel keys, and he mentioned a report in Wall Street Journal quotes from persons familiar with the early evaluation of US officials of the Air India accident, which led to the death of 241 people on board in addition to many on the ground.

According to the WSJ report, the registration of the black dialogue of the dialogue between the two pilots indicates that the most experienced captain remained calm while he was stopping the keys while the first officer expressed his surprise and then his poetry, and asked him the great why he moved from the keys from “running” to “Cutoff”.

Earlier, a preliminary investigation by the AAIB aircraft investigation office (AAIB) was identified the dialogue between the two pilots, but he did not explain who said what. According to the AAIB report, which revealed the cockpit sound recordings, one of the pilots asked, “Why did you cut?” While the other answered, “I did not.” The report did not specify whether the conversion of the keys was accidental or deliberate.

The keys were delivered in one second sequence according to the AAIB report.

However, the group of pilots in India raised concerns about the biases against the pilots. The ALPA-Endia Pilot Association questioned the absence of transparency in the investigation and raised concerns about the AAIB report on the experimental error. The group also said that there is a secret about the investigation. Alba said that “individuals are appropriately qualified and have not been transferred to these decisive investigations,” Alba said. “We feel that the investigation is being led in a direction that assumes the guilt of the pilots, and we strongly objected to this line of thought,” said Captain Sam Thomas, president of Alpa-India.

It should be noted that Captain Sumit Sabharwal had 8,200 hours of flying experience, while the first officer, Clayef Condar, had a firm experience of 1100 hours.

Meanwhile, a report at The Indian Express highlights another possible angle. The investigators are said to be looking for obstacles that appeared in the electrical components and software of the plane, which may have caused “non -explained” procedures.

In fact, a pilot noticed flying the same plane before the flight was launched from Ahmedabad, and he referred to the “defect of the installer’s position” in the technical record. The stability adapter adapter controls the movement of the plane to the top and down, and transmits data in the electrical signals to the flight control system.

An official told the Daily newspaper that it was unlikely to “stabilize the adapter defect”, but could have caused multiple failure in the sensor.

The official said that the analysis of aviation data will focus on the path of errors mentioned in the technical records to ensure the authenticity of the electricity and software components of the plane. According to him, the plane had previously witnessed major obstacles – one of which was the cancellation of flying in December 2024 due to the presence of an electrical obstacle that could not be resolved and the other is an emergency landing in 2015 due to an increase in air compressor in the cabin.