Air India Completes Boeing 787 Fuel Switch Checks
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An investigation into the Air India Dreamliner that crashed last month and left 260 people dead has revealed a mysterious audio recording.
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Al Jazeera on MSNWhat happened to the fuel-control switches on doomed Air India flight 171?According to a report published on Wednesday by The Wall Street Journal quoting sources close to United States officials’ early assessment of evidence, the black box audio recording of the last conversation between the two pilots indicates that the captain might have turned off the switches controlling the flow of fuel to the plane’s engines.
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.
International airlines from South Korea and India are preparing to inspect its Boeing fleets following findings from the Air India crash investigation.
(Reuters) -A cockpit recording of dialogue between the two pilots of the Air India flight that crashed last month indicates the captain cut the flow of fuel to the Boeing 787 jet's engines, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
El regulador de aviación de India ordenó el lunes a las aerolíneas que operan varios modelos de Boeing que examinen los interruptores de
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.