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Preliminary report into Air India crash released

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314 points cjr | 7 comments | 11 Jul 25 20:23 UTC | HN request time: 1.337s | source | bottom
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resist_futility ◴[12 Jul 25 01:52 UTC] No.44538639[source]▶
In this YouTube short you can see the pilot switching both fuel cutoff to run

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bd4Bler36Nk

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deadbabe ◴[12 Jul 25 02:02 UTC] No.44538677[source]▶
there's literally two other similar switches right next to those?
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1. resist_futility ◴[12 Jul 25 02:09 UTC] No.44538702[source]▶
The switches on the lower panel that are switched, are the fuel cutoffs
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2. anonzzzies ◴[12 Jul 25 05:44 UTC] No.44539621[source]▶
But they don't look protected or hard to switch?
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3. ojosilva ◴[12 Jul 25 08:30 UTC] No.44540324[source]▶
No they don't, do they. That also corroborates the fact that they could be both switched to CUTOFF within a second, like the report states. That impossibility was raised by parallel threads here. In the video they are both switched on even faster than 1 sec apart, or, at least it feels like it.
4. vishnugupta ◴[12 Jul 25 08:31 UTC] No.44540327[source]▶
The pilot is toggling the switch on.

Toggling it off presumably requires more power and is multiple actions.

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5. testrun ◴[12 Jul 25 09:02 UTC] No.44540496[source]▶
They are hard to switch. You need to lift them to switch.
6. shash ◴[12 Jul 25 12:36 UTC] No.44541626{3}[source]▶
You move those switches down apparently. I don't think so.
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7. vishnugupta ◴[12 Jul 25 14:33 UTC] No.44542353{4}[source]▶
Up/Forward ==> Run ==> Fuel supply is on

Down/Backwards ==> Cutoff ==> Fuel supply is off

https://www.reddit.com/r/indianaviation/comments/1lxxatc/fue...