(07-13-2025, 02:15 AM)AllGold Wrote:A deliberate act. There must be some sort of miscommunication here because I'm not sure why that needs explaining.(07-13-2025, 01:33 AM)Black Wrote:(07-13-2025, 01:06 AM)AllGold Wrote: Well, there wasn't a bias towards pilot error. It was pilot error.
? We don't know that.
Fuel pumps were switched off right after takeoff. What else could it be?
(07-13-2025, 02:14 AM)GGD Wrote: Next step I would expect is from the timeline, determine what switch should have been switched at about the same time the fuel cutoff switches were thrown (landing gear?), and if there's any indication that they were switched as expected. And of course figuring out who flipped the cutoffs and what they should have been doing instead.
And really dig into the switch design and the recovered switches to see if there's any chance that they might be like the hatch on Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7.
This has all been covered on the usual aviation channels. The landing gear lever was not actuated despite earlier assumptions that it was based on the wheel position. The sequence and timing of the cutoff actuation leaves little doubt that it was a human action. Not enough information has been released to guess at who did or said what but they may or may not have enough info to figure it out- it's going to be a good while until the final report is released.
Pretty much everything that can be said at this point is included here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE0BetkXsLg&t=559s