A report published this Friday indicates that the fuel supply of the engines of the Air India aircraft, which crashed in mid-June in India, was “cut” shortly after takeoff.
According to a preliminary report from the Indian Aviation Accidents Office published this Friday, July 11, fuel supply from the engines of the Air India airplane, which crashed on June 12 in India, was “cut” for a few moments after takeoff.
“The N1 and N2 engines began to decrease compared to their take -off values when the fuel supply of the engines has been cut,” explain the investigators in this fifteen -page document. According to the report, the switches who control the fuel went to the “OFF” position.
Investigators have at their disposal the black boxes of the device, the technical data recorder (FDR) and that of conversations in the cockpit (CVR), found on June 13 and 16.
“No significant defect” on the plane
If one of the engines could have been restarted, it “did not allow us to reverse the deceleration” of the plane, the investigators argue.
This fuel fuel supply caused confusion in the cockpit, where the two pilots were. One of them asked the other why “he cut” food. His colleague replied that he did nothing like it.
Regarding the Boeing 787-8, this preliminary report “suggests that no significant defect was found on the plane or its engines”.
“At this stage of the survey, no action is recommended to operators and manufacturers of engines,” the investigators say.
They specify that the engines “were recovered, then” quarantined in an airport hangar “.” The interesting components for more in -depth examinations have been identified “, specify the authors of the investigation.
The apparatus crash in northwestern India left 279 dead, and a survivor. The plane crashed shortly after takeoff in Ahmedabab, when it was to connect London. A single passenger, seated near an emergency exit at the front of the aircraft, miraculously survived his fall, with 242 people on board, in a residential area of the city less than a minute after takeoff. At least 38 people have been killed on the ground, according to local police. This is the deadliest air disaster in the world since 2014.
