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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
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Al Jazeera on MSN‘No basis’: Pilot groups reject claims of human error in Air India crashTwo commercial pilots groups reject initial probe into June 12 crash, calling it ‘reckless and unfounded insinuation’.
FEARS are mounting that the doomed Air India flight was a pilot suicide – as an aviation expert claimed there was a vanishingly small chance the fuel was cut by accident. Ex-pilot Terry
A preliminary report for last month’s Air India crash that killed 241 people on board — with a sole survivor miraculously walking away — found that the plane’s engine fuel cutoff switch was flipped just three seconds after taking off.
A report by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau attributes the Air India flight AI171 crash to a chip malfunction. The crash killed 260 people, and a former pilot suggests the pilots may not be at fault,
This tragedy reminds us that aviation safety depends on patient and thorough investigation – not media soundbites or unqualified expert commentary.