17/07/2025
As per the preliminary report on the Air India flight 117 crash, just three seconds after take-off, the fuel switches were flipped from RUN to CUT OFF, one after the other within a second.
These are two separate locked switches; they canβt just move if someone brushes against them. They need deliberate, precise action.
One pilot noticed the switches were at CUT OFF and asked the other why he did it. The other denied it.
Could a mechanical or electrical fault do this? A fault could stop fuel flow electrically, but it canβt physically move the cockpit switches to CUT OFF as the switches are mechanical, not motorised.
Another theory: In 2018, the FAA warned that the fuel switch locking mechanism could fail. But even then, they wouldnβt flip to CUT OFF by themselves unless someone bumped them or there was heavy vibration. For both locks to fail and both switches to move to CUT OFF due to vibration or accidental brush off, all within three seconds, is extremely unlikely, unless something deeper was wrong.
Investigators will find out. But if the report is accurate, something far more chilling than anyone imagined is a remote possibility here.
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