“The idea may be to quickly move to a criminal investigation, and therefore in the hands of justice, rather than an accident investigation.”
A sentence of the document particularly shocked the community of pilots. According to the Indian authorities, the cockpit conversations recorder indicated that one of the pilots had asked the other “Why he cut fuel supply” and that the latter had answered “that he did not do it”. “If you point a sentence like that in recording the cockpit, you have to take out the precise conversation, second per second, and not an interpretation of these words “continues our interlocutor.
A month after the India air crash, the investigation report was revealed but it leaves very perplexed
According to him, this report looks like a “Truck out speed to cleare Boeing and reassure the general public”. “We pass the pilots for suicide bomber. This precipitation in the investigation is suspect. The idea may be to quickly move to a criminal investigation, and therefore in the hands of justice, rather than an “accident” investigation. However, the vast majority of “accident” surveys, which are usually very searched, have shown that there were often several causes to a crash. We have often discovered things that we had not seen at all at the start. “
We are not even trained for this type of scenario, because you know you are dead. “
Our expert confirms this: the passengers of the Air India flight had no chance of getting out of it. “”Losing the two engines in full takeoff is the nightmare of any pilot. We are not even trained for this type of scenario, because you know you are dead. “ Another confirmation, the “buttons” to cut fuel arrivals from the engines cannot be started by accident. “”These are not simple switches, there is a whole handling to operate. They also cannot be confused with other orders. “
If, as the preliminary report suggests, one of the two pilots could have cut the two engines, there was perhaps a reason, dixit our pilot. “”Maybe something happened against the will of the crew. These are not simple buttons: there is an entire electrical system that controls the two valves cutting the kerosene at different levels of the aircraft. But this whole part is completely in the shadow of this report. We do not even seem to have examined it, just as we have not been interested in the maintenance of the plane. “
India air crash: all the hypotheses envisaged, even sabotage
Boeing has a “passive” with these electrical systems. In 2018, the American aviation administration (FAA) had warned of a “risk of disengagement from the locking device of the fuel control switch “ On several models of Boeing plane, including 787. “The two crashes of the Boeing 737 Max have shown us that the manufacturer did not say everything about its drivers on its systems and that they could sometimes mess around. We cannot exclude a new technical flaw, at least not at this stage of the investigation”.
“I understand the anger of my Indian colleagues.”
This preliminary report also questions in India. Two Indian line pilot associations have strongly rejected the document “We have the feeling that the investigation follows a track which presumes the responsibility of the pilots and we firmly oppose it “reacted the Association of Indian Line Pilots (ALPA).
ALPA, which claims 800 members, regretted the “secret” which surrounds the investigation and regretted not to be associated with it as “ observer “. Another organization, the Association of Indian Commercial Pilots (ICPA), has declared itself “Very disturbed by these speculations […] especially those which unfounded the idea of the suicide of a pilot “unfounded”. “Such a hypothesis has no basis in the current state of the investigation”. “I understand the anger of my Indian colleagues”explains for his part, Alain Vanalderweireldt, the president of the Beca, the Belgian association of line pilots. The latter pleads for a firm position of the World Pilot Association in relation to this report “Who says both everything and nothing “.
