Preliminary report into Air India crash released

> The aircraft achieved the maximum recorded airspeed of 180 Knots IAS at about 08:08:42 UTC and immediately thereafter, the Engine 1 and Engine 2 fuel cutoff switches transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF position one after another with a time gap of 01 sec. The Engine N1 and N2 began to decrease from their take-off values as the fuel supply to the engines was cut off.

So the fuel supply was cut off intentionally. The switches in question are also built so they cannot be triggered accidentally, they need to be unlocked first by pulling them out.

> In the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why did he cutoff. The other pilot responded that he did not do so.

And both pilots deny doing it.

It's difficult to conclude anything other than murder-suicide.

Does the Flight Data Recorder consider the physical position of the fuel switches or does it get the information from some fly-by-wire part that could be buggy?

The conversation would suggest that the switches were in CUTOFF position, but there is also a display that summarizes the engine status.

There is no conversation that mentions flipping the switch to RUN again.

EDIT: Why is there no Cockpit Video Recorder? The days of limited storage are over.

> EDIT: Why is there no Cockpit Video Recorder? The days of limited storage are over.

Pilots unions are dead against it.

Are you actually using a tragedy like this to launch an assault on organized labour?