On June 12th, 2025, an Indian Airlines flight bearing flight number AI171 bound to London, UK from Ahmedabad, India, crashed, killing every...
On June 12th, 2025, an Indian Airlines flight bearing flight number AI171 bound to London, UK from Ahmedabad, India, crashed, killing everyone onboard, barring one miraculous passenger who survived.
The death toll was even higher, as it crashed on top of several buildings of a medical college & hospital, which it crashed on. The black box was recovered, & the investigation was pursued jointly by several agencies from India, the USA, Canada, Boeing (aircraft manufacturer), and other agencies.
Yesterday, on July 12th, 2025, an Indian agency AAIB released a preliminary report, and there was a lot of speculation on the internet among netizens. Some of the comments from the videos below raise some serious concerns over the incident.
Comment 1:
Once the fuel switches were turned off, one was turned on after 10 secs and the other after 14 secs. That's a lot of time. Once the sane pilot realized that the fuel switches were off, why did he take so much time to turn them back on?
Comment 2:
The suggestion that a "fuel cutoff switch" was accidentally activated within seconds after takeoff, leading to engine failure, is indeed highly unusual and warrants scrutiny.
Modern aircraft like the Boeing 787 use Full Authority Digital Engine Control (FADEC) systems. Engine fuel supply is digitally regulated, and manual overrides (like a fuel cutoff) require deliberate, multi-step confirmation. A pilot cannot accidentally kill fuel to both engines with a simple single motion unless he activates both engine cutoff switches or there’s a software malfunction or wiring fault.
Therefore, I refuse to believe that a single, accidental switch activation during a highly procedural takeoff sequence led to dual engine shutdown on a digitally controlled aircraft without confirmation layers.
Comment 3:
I've been watching many videos about the Preliminary Report. Yours is by far the best as you have taken the trouble of adding visuals. So thank you.
Sad to know that someone manipulated those switches. Rip all those who perished.
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At this point we do not know if the fuel cut off switches were manipulated manually.
Comment 4:
Three possibilities:
1. Suicide pilot -- Going to take everyone with him. Has happened before!
2. The mechanical switch interlocks were broken -- Both of them -- Seems remote
3. Are the fuel cutoff switches "Hard Wired" to the fuel flow valves or just an input to other electrical devices, computer, low current to high current amplification......Something that could stop the fuel flow with the physical switches still in the "On" position?
If I had to put money on the table without full knowledge of how the system is designed, I would go with number 1or 3. More likely #1. Sad, but it has happened before.
Also, I concur, a stupid place to put a switch that will probably never be used and has catastrophic consequences if accidently used.
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