A preliminary report on research in the field of air tickets (AAIB), presented in this Saturday attribute of fuel supply failure, such as the reason Boeing Apparly 787-8 Air India Dreamlinerwhich crashed on June 12 in Ahmedabad.
The accident of the aircraft that took the AI171 flight between Ahmedabad, in Western India and London, He left 260 deathsIncluding 242 people on board and 18 on land, after exposure a few seconds after takeoff Against the BJ medical college near the airport. So Just the passenger survivedField
Notifying the accident, AAIB launched a team of five officers on the site, and the three other officials of the DGAC air security department joined to help assemble evidence and other events.
According to the document, “” Fuel resolution from both engines were operated Almost simultaneously three seconds after takeoff, leaving the engines without movement and causing a rapid loss of height. “
In the voice recordings restored from the cabin “,One of the pilots asks the other why he reduced the supplyOr fuel, to which he replied that he did not do this, ”the report says.
A Data comes from black boxes Received by researchers who registered 49 hours of flight and two hours of audio cab. According to the report: “When the fuel management switches change from the position of cutting to work, when the plane is in flight, the double control system automatically activates the Fuel -Delaed and Supply sequence.”
Shortly after the reduction, the switches were returned to the working position, and the engines began to reboot, but the plane has already Critically lost heightThe field in this way, it is indicated that a few seconds after the reactivity try, one of the pilots released an emergency message: “Mayday, Mayday, Mayday”And although the air controller tried to establish contact, he did not receive an answer and was a witness to the accident at a distance.
Air India said that among 242 passengers there were 169 Indians, 53 British, seven Portuguese and Canadians. The report does not ascribe responsibilitiesHe also does not draw the final conclusions about the cause of the accident and indicates that “the switches are located in the central console of the cabin protected by a metal rod and a security mechanism that avoids its accidental activation.”
