Guess anything is possible but most modern airports have underground fuel lines that are fed from a larger fuel depot. It would be difficult to push bad fuel to one specific plane. There would have been a bunch of failures.
Fwiw this article in wiki has added this flight to the list of incidents using the RAT. Ram air turbine - Wikipedia
An airline pilot speculates that the crash may have been due to the co-pilot grabbing the wrong handle and raising flaps instead of raising the landing gear. Co-pilot error suspected in new Air India crash theory
My brother is a commercial pilot and he said all flight recorders don’t have a backup power source so if that was a cause in this crash it’s not a guarantee the recorders would be recording the whole time. He doesn’t know about the 787 but this happened in the recent South Korea 737 crash.
An identical 787 for American Airlines had to abort four flights with emergency landings because of a problem with the flaps. Boeing 787 identical to crash jet made four emergency landings in a month
My brother doesn’t buy it and says the guy in the video is ignoring other evidence. He also cited the the first comment the video from a former 787 pilot: “Hi I’m an ex 787 captain, in this phase of flight due to the flight envelope protection and auto gap protection, the system doesn’t allow you to retract flaps even accidentally .”
He's changed his mind now that he has the original video that the world has not been viewing. The video we've seen has been a video of a video so we didn't get to see or hear what actually happened. After he was able to view that video, he has changed his mind that it was the deploying of the RAT and that it was dual engine failure:
I also expect Boeing's stock to crash over the next week or 2 as the world starts to understand that the crash was caused by the RAT deploying and not pilot error. That also might ground all 787s worldwide until a cause can be found.
I don’t think these planes were properly maintained. Sounds like there was electrical problems on this same plane on its prior flight. Yet this plane was allowed to take off again. Why is that? https://youtube.com/shorts/pPP1dJPMOE4?si=mfO0SevI-Dz5o6w-
I don't understand that. The RAT deploying is an "effect" and not a "cause". There are many reasons that the aircraft could have lost power, that may or may not be a Boeing design flaw. Videos taken by passengers on the inbound flight from Delhi showed there were numerous electrical system issues with that jet, including the air conditioning not working correctly.
Yes. Just posted a video above. If true, did maintenance inspect the plane before takeoff? Did the pilots go through their checklist and would this come up?
This plane has been in AI’s possession for 13 years. Whatever happened is likely a maintenance issue unlike the Alaska Air flight where the door blew off after five months. I guess it’s possible there is a bad design that causes the electrical system to start having issues overtime which would causes a worldwide grounding and inspection of 787s for that issue but I wouldn’t assume that to be the case.
I haven’t watched the second video but one thing my brother mentioned yesterday is that the planes have electric fuel pumps but are also generally designed to be gravity fed. The problem is that when you take off and pitch upward the gravity feed doesn’t work and there is a very limited amount of fuel before it is consumed. Apparently one of the crews in his military squadron in a simulator forgot to turn the fuel pumps on in their plane (much, much older plane without automation so that was an option) and went through something similar during takeoff as the AI flight but was barely able to recover. I’m probably butchering what he was saying (and he doesn’t think a lot about the situation makes sense), but I think his speculation was that maybe the pumps didn’t have power at all or lost power, the engines then lost thrust when the gravity lines emptied, this caused the RAT and APU to deploy, and it was either too late (most critical portion of the flight) or the pumps didn’t work for some reason (problem with pumps or electrical to the pumps).
India's regulatory agency ordering an immediate maintenance checks (wish I knew exactly what that meant) of all 787s with GEnx engines. However, the fleet of 34 787s has not been grounded. https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/14/india/air-india-crash-being-inspection-intl
Another 787, bound for India, no less, has to return to the airport it took off from after a problem with flaps. The British Airways flight took off from and landed at Heathrow Airport after dumping fuel. Flight to nowhere for 214 passengers on a British Airways Boeing 787 bound for India
Air India has another problem with a 787 on a flight from Hong Kong to New Dehli. This one is an unspecified mechanical problem that caused the flight to return to Hong Kong. I hope all of the executives at Boeing are on suicide watch. They have to be as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. The executives at Air India probably aren't doing much better. https://www.mensjournal.com/news/second-air-india-787-incident-4-days-sparks-fresh-safety-concerns
"O.k., I want all of the representatives of airlines that have not had a 787 return to the airport of origin this week to raise your hands!"
And now we’re in the “find every problem everywhere with every aircraft and induce panic” phase of the story. These incidents happen every day, hence why they are able to find them so quickly. Notice how 737’s are magically not in the news every day now? Same will be true here in a month.
