Thread: Air India crash

FYI:

I bet Boeing and the refullers are relieved, however I wonder what changes they can implement to prevent it happening again. I'm assuming the switches were accidentally bumped somehow.

I really hope that such switches couldn't be accidentally bumped, but possibly operated in error when other similar switches were intended.

Preliminary Report VT-ANB.pdf

Video of switches. Note that those particular switches have a "guard", plus it appears they need to be lifted to operate.

Watch: Role of plane fuel switches explained

In comments from pilots familiar with the switches it would seem to be impossible to operate the switches accidentally.

Yes. The report will be a big relief for Boeing, if there is nothing else - but Air India and Tata will have more problems.

It certainly tends to implicate at least one of the pilots, but it therefore suggests problems with Air India's governance or training. The reports say both pilots passed breath tests prior to the flight, but the very fact that AI finds this necessary as a routine matter does suggest the possibility that the results may have been perhaps less definitive, since it suggests there could be an incentive to find a way round the tests..