The Head of the US National Transport Safety Council said it was too early to draw conclusions about what caused the deadly Air India Jetliner to report that the aircraft captain had probably moved the switches that control the fuel flow into the engines.
“The investigation of this size takes time,” said NTSB chairwoman Jennifer Homendy on Friday in a contribution to the X -Social Media Platform. She called recent news about the media “premature and speculative” without providing any specifics about what she was referred to.
Investigators, led by the Indian Air accident investigation office, combine evidence to determine what caused Air India Flight 171 to hit 12 June, killing 260 people. CEO AAIB and Air India Campbell Wilson also urged the public not to cause conclusions while the spacecraft is taking place.
It may take a year – sometimes longer – to publish the last report to determine the likely cause of the accident and recommendations to avoid future tragedies.
The preliminary report published by AAIB found that two fuel switch on Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliner was moved to the “marginal” position as soon as the aircraft raised and starved fuel engines. While the thrust was reversed 10 seconds later, it was too late to turn the accident.
A voice recording from the cockpit from the plane revealed that one pilot – from the identification of Bloomberg and other stores as the first Officer Clive Kunder – asked the other, captain Sumeet Sabharwal, why he shifted the switches to which he replied that no.
How and why the switches shut down are the key lines of investigation for the investigators. Officials examine whether this could be the outcome of human activity – intentional or unintentional – or failure of aircraft systems.
After publishing the preliminary report AAIB, the Indian Civil Aviation Office ordered the fuel switches on the Boeing 737 and 787 aircraft operating in the country in an effort to find out whether the accident was caused by the failure of the device.
At this point, investigators did not identify any mechanical or design problems with the Boeing or Motors, manufactured by GE Aerospace.
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