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Investigators are still piecing together what went wrong. In the meantime, aviation safety experts have begun to narrow their thinking.
Boeing investors finally have details from a preliminary accident report for Air India flight 171, which crashed on June 12 less than a minute after taking off from an airport in Ahmedabad, India.
Decoding the black box is going to give an in-depth insight into what happened moments before the plane crash,” Civil ...
The Air India flight crash is not just a case of mechanical misfortune, but a warning shot across the bow of modern aircraft ...
Jennifer Homendy has backed Indian investigators' appeal for restraint following reports that the captain moved fuel control ...
A pair of switches that control the fuel supply to the engines were set to "cutoff" moments before the crash of Air India Flight 171 ... According to the report, data from the flight recorders show ...
Indian investigators determined the Boeing 787 Dreamliner was properly configured and lifted off normally. But three seconds after takeoff, the engines' fuel switches were cut off.
Wreckage of the Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner plane sits on the ... airliners be equipped with cockpit image recorders.
According to the flight recorder, a few seconds after takeoff, switches for both engines transitioned to 'CUTOFF' from 'RUN' one after another with a time gap of one second ...
Sumeet Sabharwal, 56, was the captain on the flight, while Clive Kunder, 32, was the co-pilot who was flying the plane.
A leading aviation safety expert has suggested that the fatal crash of Air India Flight 171 may have been the result of ...