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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’
Investigators released a preliminary account of the crash, describing how the plane struggled after its fuel supply was cut.
The deadly Air India crash has renewed a decades-old debate in the aviation industry over installing video cameras to monitor airline pilot actions.
Officials said that both pilots had successfully passed the Class I medical examination within the past two years, a test that assesses their mental and physical fitness.
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 investigation report says Air India did not carry out those inspections - prompting speculation that the accident could have been caused by faulty switches being flipped by accident. However, in an internal note seen by the BBC, the FAA has since reiterated its belief that the issue did not compromise safety.
International airlines from South Korea and India are preparing to inspect its Boeing fleets following findings from the Air India crash investigation.
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
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