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Abnormal cut fuel switches detected:
A preliminary report on the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner of the airline Air India which crashed. Furthermore, left 260 dead in India last month shows that the supplies of fuel supplies of the aircraft almost switched simultaneously from the “walking” position in the “cut” position three seconds after takeoff.
The engines were then deprived of fuel. Similarly, the plane immediately began to lose in power of thrust and fall, according to the report published on Saturday by Indian investigators.
The cockpit voice recorder allows you to hear one of the pilots asking the other, why he cut the fuel. Meanwhile, “The other pilot replied that he had not done so,” said the report.
The report does not specify who. of the captain or the co -pilot, pronounced these words and transmitted the message “Mayday, Mayday, Mayday” just before the plane crashed.
The document also does not specify how the abnormal cut fuel switches detected fuel supply switches were able to switch to the “cut” position on the plane. which had just taken off from the Indian city of Ahmedabad and headed for London.
Accidental interruption by the pilot not possible – Abnormal cut fuel switches detected
John Cox. a American safety expert, said that a pilot could not accidentally trigger switches who feed fuel engines.
The “cut” position of these switches is most often used to stop the engines once an airplane has arrived at the airport boarding gate. in certain emergency situations, such as engine fire.
The report does not mention an emergency situation that would have required a power cut.
“At this stage of the survey. no measure is recommended to the operators and manufacturers of the Boeing 787-8 and/or the engines GE GENX-1B,” said the Indian Aviation accident office (Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau).
Air India, Boeing and Ge Aviation did not immediately respond to requests for comments.
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