Air India: Investigators Submit Report on What Led To Fatal Plane Crash That Killed 241 on Board
- Investigators trying to unravel the cause of the Air India plane crash that happened on June 12 have submitted a preliminary report
- The plane crash that occurred in Ahmedabad attracted global attention and shook India due to the number of deaths
- The Indian Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) submitted its preliminary report to the Ministry of Civil Aviation on Tuesday
The Indian Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has submitted its preliminary report on the Air India plane crash.
The plane that went down at the BJ Medical College hostel killed 241 people on board and many others on the ground.
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According to news reports by The Times of India, the AAIB submitted its initial findings to the Ministry of Civil Aviation and the concerned authorities.
The content of the report is yet to be made public. The report is expected to shed light on what led to the fatal air incident.
The submission of the preliminary report is the first step towards the discovery of what caused the plane to crash.
Former pilot shares opinion on Air India crash
Meanwhile, a former pilot, Captain Laura Savino has shared what she noticed after watching the video of the Air India plane crash.
According to her, the first thing is that the aircraft's flaps were not in the take-off configuration in the video she saw.
She noted:
"I don't see the flaps in the take-off configuration. The gear is remaining down. Of course, as soon as you have a positive rate, you gonna retract the gear because of the drag. They never retracted the gear, which there is a lot of things you can speculate there.
"At that point in the rotation, they will be bringing the gear up. Did they bring the flap handle up instead? I'm not saying that happened, but it's a possibility."
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Laura said she also noticed that the aircraft did not climb the way it should when it took off.
According to her, from the video she saw, it looked like the Boeing Dreamliner was struggling to generate the required thrust.
Her words:
They used the full length of the runway. It was a full aircraft, it was a very long flight. So, they were probably very heavy on fuel and they used the whole length of the runway. You can see the dust blo'wing off at the end of he runway there as they are finally rotating.
"They did initially get a climb, but it was a very shallow climb. They should be going about 15 degrees nose up and it looks like they are struggling to do that. Then the aircraft settled and started to come back down. Did they have a lost of thrust?"
She also said that the Boeing Dreamliner has very powerful engines and should be able to fly even with one of the engines.
Her words:
"You know this aircraft has very very powerful engines. It can climb quiet efficiently with one single engine without any problems, so did they have complete loss of thrust? The video doesn't have any sound where we could hear if the engines were producing thrust or not."
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