Flight Black Box recordings 171 of Air India – which fell last month and killed 242 people around Ahmedabad airport in western India – indicate that one of the Boeing 787 pilots questioned the reason for colleague to have cut fuel food For the engines, seconds before the fall.
The audio test is part of the preliminary report Of the investigators of the General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGCA) of India, whose initial conclusion did not find “recommended actions” to manufacturers of the aircraft and engines, Boeing and General Electric, in what is the worst Indian air disaster since 1996.
“In the voice recording of the cabin, one of the pilots is heard by asking the other why he cut. The other pilot replied that he didn’t do it,” reveals the DGCA report.
The plane with destination to London It fell on June 12, about 30 seconds after taking off from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Western India. The aircraft collided on the ground with a Refectory of a medical school. Not total, More than 270 people diedincluding dozens on land, authorities said. Only one of 242 people on board survived the fall.
According to DGCA investigations, the buttons that control fuel supply were turned off “after another,” and “the aircraft began to lose altitude before crossing the perimeter wall of the airport.”
As usual in reports of this type aeronautical accidents, there is no mention of culprits or direct accountability in the fall, but the initial conclusions of the investigation imply that possibilities analyzed by the competent bodies so far is that one of the pilots may have caused the accident purposely.
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