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A black-box recording and report details indicate that the flight’s captain switched off fuel flow to engines.
Foreign media blamed for ‘repeatedly attempting to draw conclusions through selective and unverified reporting’
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.
Investigators released a preliminary account of the crash, describing how the plane struggled after its fuel supply was cut.
Captain Randhawa dismissed the claims as baseless and vowed to take action against the publication, saying the preliminary report on the Air India plane crash makes no mention of the pilots turning of
International airlines from South Korea and India are preparing to inspect its Boeing fleets following findings from the Air India crash investigation.
The report and India’s inspection order referred to an advisory from the Federal Aviation Administration in 2018 that recommended that carriers using Boeing models, including the 787, inspect the locking mechanism of the fuel control switches to ensure they could not be moved accidentally.
The CEO of Air India sought to draw a line under rife speculation around the cause of last month's air disaster in Ahmedebad, saying the preliminary investigation had ruled out a mechanical cause for the crash.
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