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The Mystery Deepens Around Air India 171 Crash

Jetwhine

An Air India Boeing 787 That’s because of a short piece of text on page 13 reads, “The aircraft achieved the maximum recorded airspeed of 180 Knots IAS at about 08:08:42 UTC, and immediately thereafter, the Engine 1 and Engine 2 fuel cutoff switches transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF position one after another with a time gap of 01 sec.

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Air India 171 Crash Triggered by Fuel Cutoff

Fear of Landing

At 07:43 UTC (12:43 local time) the flight crew contacted ATC for pushback, which was approved, followed by the aircraft starting up. The aircraft lifted off at 08:08:39 UTC. This initiates a “re-light and thrust recovery sequence”, that is, the engines should automatically restart and begin producing thrust again.

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Dreamliner Crash in Ahmedabad: Air India flight 171

Fear of Landing

It certainly lifts off slowly; however, it was hot and the Boeing would have been heavy with a full load of passengers packed for travel to the UK and fuel for the nine-hour flight. As per ATC, the aircraft departed from Ahmedabad at 1339 IST (0809 UTC) from Runway 23. However, this theory is more dubious.