The fuel supply switches from the engines of the Air India Air Boeing which crashed shortly after takeoff on June 12, killing 260 people, put themselves in position “stop“Just before the impact, according to a preliminary investigation report published early Saturday.
The report, published by the Indian Office of Investigation into Air Accidents (AAIB), does not draw any conclusion and does not attribute any responsibility, but indicates that a pilot asked the other why he had cut fuel, the second pilot responding that he had not done so. Less than a minute later, a pilot transmitted the distress signal “Mayday, Mayday, Mayday“, And the plane crashed on dwellings.
A total of 241 people who were on board the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner of Air India were killed, and only one survived, when the plane crashed on dwellings just after takeoff in the city of Ahmedabad, in the west of the country. The authorities also identified 19 people killed on the ground.
According to the report, the Boeing had reached a maximum speed of 180 knots (333 km/h) by taking off when the fuel switches in position have passed from the position “run“(open) to the position”cutoff“(stop) for the first engine then the second a second later. The two engines then began to decrease in power.
