Air India had a 787 flight in 2023 that had to return to its airport after an engine failure. The failure was determined to be because of poor maintenance. The flight was between Mumbai and London. Also of note: India's aviation regulator only has half the staff it is supposed to have. It's a sad day when India runs out of people . . . Air India Dreamliner made emergency landing after 2023 engine failure
Folks in the west don’t understand how almost comically corrupt India is, in everything. Literally everything. I spent some time there, I have all kinds of stories. Nothing that happens there surprises me, and if it’s AI’s fault here, it would be the least shocking news ever. And if it is, they are going to get destroyed.
I was very impressed with the flooding on the streets of New Dehli when I visited a couple years ago.
An update about the crash is supposed to be released by the end of the week. Speculation is leaning towards deliberate shutting of fuel to the engine during take off. Sadly pilot suicide is occurring way to often. https://www.reuters.com/world/india...ia-crash-indias-aviation-ministry-2025-07-08/
When I talk about corruption, I will guarantee if that’s the verdict on Friday, many in India and elsewhere will question whether simply blaming the crew was the easiest way to protect the airline from charges of maintenance issues. They better have really solid evidence that stands up to independent scrutiny.
If this is the case, the data recorder records every button push and switch. If one of them simply reached down and turned off the engine/fuel, the data recorder will absolutely have that. I’m not technically knowledgeable enough to know how easy that would be to falsify after the fact, but if that’s what happened, they already know. Awful if true.
Is it possible they could have bumped a switch and turned it off by accident? Then not realizing they were the source of the problem, not consider that possibility when troubleshooting?
No. the fuel/engine switch needs to be lifted then switched to prevent just that. Also they are about 4-5 inches apart so even if they did one the other engine would function. It does make sense as to why the RAT was deployed. When power is lost to certain Buses the RAT is deployed and shutting down both engines and not having the APU running would produce the result that exact result. So Fing selfish. You wanna off yourself, go fight a tiger or something
The cockpit voice recorder will be key helping to determine if cutting the fuel was a deliberate sabotage act, or part of some restart sequence. It will be interesting if they release a transcript of it.
"The aircraft achieved the maximum recorded airspeed of 180 Knots IAS at about 08:08:42 UTC and immediately thereafter, the Engine 1 and Engine 2 fuel cutoff switches transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF position one after another with a time gap of 01 sec. The Engine N1 and N2 began to decrease from their take-off values as the fuel supply to the engines was cut off. In the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why did he cutoff. The other pilot responded that he did not do so." https://aaib.gov.in/What's New Assets/Preliminary Report VT-ANB.pdf So sad.
