Air India Probe Puts Early Focus on Pilots’ Actions and Plane’s Fuel Switches

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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.  .

This.

It was mentioned on this Mentour Pilot episode a criticism that not enough communication of the investigation being released to help quell inadvertent or deliberate misinformation being spread.

That episode made no mention of any Seattle Times article or black box voice recording.

It did mention a scenario where a double engine failure might require both fuel cutoffs to be pulled simultainiously then set back to Run.

This would restart the starting sequence from 'zero' to given the engines the best chance to restart.

If the Seattle Times article is correct, then this wasn't what happened.

So I'm waiting for an official report.

This video mentioned an interim report to be released possibly Friday.

Here's the Mentour Pilot video of the official interim report:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE0BetkXsLg&ab_channel=MentourNow%21

I'll look at the Seattle Times article in a bit.