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New Delhi [India], July 12 (ANI): Soon after the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) released its preliminary report into the Air India AI171 crash in Ahmedabad, Air India acknowledged receipt of the 15-page preliminary report and said it continue to fully cooperate with the AAIB and other authorities. 'We continue to mourn the loss and are fully committed to providing support during this difficult time. Air India is working closely with stakeholders, including regulators. We continue ...Read More >
New Delhi: Soon after the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) released its preliminary report into the Air India AI171 crash in Ahmedabad, Air India acknowledged receipt of the 15-page preliminary report and said it continues to fully cooperate with the AAIB and other authorities. "We continue to mourn the loss and are fully committed to providing support during this difficult time. Air India is working closely with stakeholders, including regulators. We continue to fully cooperate wi ...Read More >
NEW DELHI (AP) -- Fuel control switches for the engines of an Air India flight that crashed last month were moved from the "run" to the "cutoff" position moments before impact, starving both engines of fuel, a preliminary investigation report said early Saturday. The report, issued by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, also indicated that both pilots were confused over the change to the switch setting, which caused a loss of engine thrust shortly after takeoff. The Air India fligh ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Fuel control switches to the engines of an Air India flight that crashed shortly after takeoff, killing 260 people, were moved from the "run" to the "cutoff" position moments before impact, a preliminary investigation report said early Saturday. The report, issued by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, did not offer any conclusions or apportion blame for the June 12 disaster but indicated that one pilot asked the other why he cut off fuel, and the second pilot responded t ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 12: Both switches feeding fuel to the two engines of Air India flight 171 were cut off followed by pilot confusion before the plane crashed in Ahmedabad, seconds after taking off, the first investigation report into the crash has revealed. It said that one pilot asked why he had shut off the fuel, and the other responded he didn't do it. The crash on June 12 was the first fatal disaster involving a Boeing 787, killing a total of 260 people -- all but one of the 242 people on boa ...Read More >
MUMBAI : Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Friday posted a video on X purportedly showing the state's social justice minister Sanjay Shirsat of the Shiv Sena sitting in a room along with a partially opened bag containing what look like bundles of currency notes. Shirsat, however, rubbished the claim, saying the bag only contained clothes.The allegation came a day after it emerged that Shirsat had received a notice from the income tax department seeking an explanation for increase in his financia ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 12 (ANI): Soon after the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) released its preliminary report into the Air India AI171 crash in Ahmedabad, Air India acknowledged receipt of the 15-page preliminary report and said it continue to fully cooperate with the AAIB and other authorities. 'We continue to mourn the loss and are fully committed to providing support during this difficult time. Air India is working closely with stakeholders, including regulators. We continue ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 12 (PTI) The engine fuel control switches of the Air India's ill-fated Boeing 787-8 plane were cut off seconds after of lift off, with one of the pilots asking the other why did he cut off and the latter responding saying he did not do so, according to AAIB. In its 15-page preliminary report on the crash which happened in around 30 seconds of the plane lifting off, the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) on Saturday said the fuel control switches were switched on later ...Read More >
SRINAGAR, July 11: Director General of Police (DGP), J&K, Nalin Prabhat today chaired a high-level security review meeting in South Kashmir to assess the arrangements for the ongoing Shri Amarnathji Yatra. The meeting was attended by DIG South Kashmir Range Javed Mattoo, SSPs of South Kashmir districts, and senior officers from the Indian Army, CRPF and BSF. Addressing the meeting, the DGP lauded the dedication of all security forces in ensuring the safe conduct of the Yatra. He stressed the ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 12 (PTI) Fuel control switches of the Air India plane were cut off and later turned on before it crashed in Ahmedabad on June 12, killing 260 people, according to the preliminary report by AAIB which also noted that there is no recommended action for now for the operators of Boeing 787-8 operators. Releasing its 15-page report, a month after the fatal plane accident that happened in around 30 seconds after lift off, the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) on Saturday al ...Read More >
(CNN) -- India's Aircraft Accident Investigation bureau has released a preliminary report on the Air India flight that crashed in June, showing the fuel to the engines was cut off. The London-bound plane had barely left the runway at Ahmedabad airport before it careened back to earth. Everyone on board was killed, except for one passenger. According to the report obtained by CNN, the fuel control switches in the cockpit of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner had been flipped, starving the engines of fue ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 12 (ANI): Ahead of the Bihar assembly elections, Union Minister and Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) president Chirag Paswan received a death threat on social media, his party spokesperson Rajesh Bhatt said on Friday. Bhatt also filed a complaint at the Cyber Police Station in Patna in the matter. As per the written complaint, the death threat was issued by an Instagram user under the name 'Tiger Meraj Idisi'. 'The threat was issued due to Paswan's growing popularity. T ...Read More >
NEW DELHI - The preliminary report from investigators probing the Air India crash that killed 260 people showed that seconds after takeoff, the Boeing 787 plane's engine fuel control switches were switched off briefly, starving them of fuel. Here are a few facts about the switches, their functions in the aircraft and their movements on the Air India flight. They are switches that regulate fuel flow into a plane's engines. They are used by pilots to start or shut down engines on the ground, ...Read More >
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -The preliminary report from investigators probing the Air India crash that killed 260 people showed that seconds after takeoff, the Boeing 787 plane's engine fuel control switches were switched off briefly, starving them of fuel. Below are a few facts about the switches, their functions in the aircraft and their movements on the Air India flight. WHAT ARE FUEL SWITCHES? They are switches that regulate fuel flow into a plane's engines. They are used by pilots to start or s ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, July 12 (Reuters) - The preliminary report from investigators probing the Air India crash that killed 260 people showed that seconds after takeoff, the Boeing 787 plane's engine fuel control switches were switched off briefly, starving them of fuel. Below are a few facts about the switches, their functions in the aircraft and their movements on the Air India flight. WHAT ARE FUEL SWITCHES? They are switches that regulate fuel flow into a plane's engines. They are used by pilots to ...Read More >
Jaipur: In a landmark move to promote handball across the country, Prasar Bharati has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Handball Association of India (HAI).The agreement is for a period of three years, under which Prasar Bharati will produce and broadcast all international and national handball events, organised by HAI on DD Sports, Waves OTT and other PB platforms.The MoU was formally exchanged between Gaurav Dwivedi, CEO, Prasar Bharati, and Anandeshwar Pandey, Executive Dire ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 12 (ANI): India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) released the preliminary report into the tragic crash of Air India flight AI171, a Boeing 787-8 aircraft, which crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad's Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport on June 12. The crash killed 260 people, including 229 passengers, 12 crew members, and 19 people on the ground. The report outlines a harrowing sequence of events that unfolded within 90 seconds of takeo ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 11 (PTI) Within seconds of lift off, the engine fuel control switches of the Air India's ill-fated Boeing 787-8 plane got switched off, with one of the pilots asking the other why did he cut off and the latter responding saying he did not do so, according to AAIB. In its 15-page preliminary report on the crash which happened in around 30 seconds of the plane lifting off, the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) said the fuel control switches were switched on later but th ...Read More >
New Delhi: In the final moments of Air India Flight AI-171, the cockpit turned from routine procedure to sheer confusion in seconds. The Boeing 787-8, carrying 230 passengers and 12 crew members, had just lifted off from Ahmedabad airport en route to London Gatwick. What happened next left no room for recovery. According to the cockpit voice recorder analysed by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), the first sign of something going terribly wrong came seconds after takeoff. Bo ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 12 (ANI): India Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) released the preliminary report into the tragic crash of Air India flight AI171, a Boeing 787-8 aircraft, which crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport on June 12. The crash killed 260 people, including 229 passengers, 12 crew members, and 19 people on the ground. The report outlines a harrowing sequence of events that unfolded within 90 seconds of takeoff, ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 11 (PTI) The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has released the preliminary report on the fatal Air India plane crash on June 12 and said there are no recommended actions to operators of Boeing 787-8 and GEnx-1B engine operators at this stage of the probe. The plane, carrying 242 people, crashed in around 30 seconds after lift off and engine fuel control switches got switched off little over a second after lift off, AAIB said. While the investigation is continuing in ...Read More >
NEW DELHI - A preliminary report into the Air India crash that killed 260 people in June showed three seconds after taking off, the plane's engines' fuel cutoff switches almost simultaneously flipped from run to cutoff, starving the engines of fuel. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner immediately began to lose thrust and sink down, according to the report released on July 12 by Indian aviation accident investigators. One pilot can be heard on the cockpit voice recorder asking the other why he cut off th ...Read More >
NEW DELHI - A month after the worst aviation accident in India in decades, the authorities are poised to release a preliminary report into the catastrophe, offering the first official clues to what caused the aircraft to plummet back to the ground just 30 seconds after taking off. Investigators have revealed very few details since the Air India accident, and the report also stands to be basic and factual - if previous initial findings are any guide. The authorities are unlikely to draw definit ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: A month after the deadliest aviation accident, the Air India 171 crash, a preliminary report is expected from the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), offering the first official insight into the cause of the Air India crash. The incident involved a Boeing 787 Dreamliner that went down just 30 seconds after takeoff in Ahmedabad on June 12, killing 241 people on board and over 30 on the ground. Only one passenger survived. The probe has been closely followed, with Bloomberg r ...Read More >
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 10 (ANI): As the date for the return of Axiom Space's Axe-4 mission crew from the International Space Station (ISS) to Earth nears, the parents of mission pilot IAF Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla expressed their excitement to welcome their son, who, they say, made them proud. 'We are really excited, the entire family is excited. We pray to God for him to come back soon. We pray for his safe return,' Shambhu Dayal Shukla, the father of Shubhanshu Shukla, to ...Read More >
Ernakulam: A Kerala native is among two individuals who tragically died when two small aircraft collided mid-air during a flight training session in Canada on Tuesday at 8:45 am. Sreehari Sukesh (23), a native of Thrippunithura in the Kochi district, was undergoing the training for a commercial pilot course when the fatality happened near the Steinbach South Airport in Canada's Manitoba. Adam Penner, President of the Harv's Air Pilot Training School, confirmed that the collision happened during ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, July 9: The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) told a parliamentary committee on Wednesday that it will make public its preliminary report on the Ahmedabad plane crash in a couple of days, sources said. AAIB Director General G V G Yugandhar told the panel that it will upload the report within 30 days of one of the worst aviation disasters in recent decades and the first crash involving a Boeing Dreamliner. Concerns over aviation safety dominated the proceedings of the par ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 9 (PTI) A Jaguar is a deep penetration strike bomber and a twin-engine jet which is "considered very safe" and only a court of inquiry would tell what went wrong with the aircraft that crashed near Churu in Rajasthan on Wednesday, say aviation experts. The Jaguar jets were inducted into the Indian Air Force (IAF) in 1979, with an initial batch of aircraft coming from in fly-away condition from the UK. Also Read | Delhi-NCR Rains: Waterlogging and Traffic Disruptions in Several A ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 9 (PTI) The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) told a parliamentary committee on Wednesday that it will make public its preliminary report on the Ahmedabad plane crash in a couple of days, sources said. AAIB Director General G V G Yugandhar told the panel that it will upload the report within 30 days of one of the worst aviation disasters in recent decades and the first crash involving a Boeing Dreamliner. Concerns over aviation safety dominated the proceedings of the ...Read More >
Jaipur/New Delhi, Jul 9 (PTI) Two pilots of the Indian Air Force (IAF) were killed on Wednesday morning in a crash of a Jaguar fighter jet near Churu in Rajasthan, the third such accident since March involving the twin-engine bomber. The IAF said a court of inquiry has been constituted to ascertain the cause of the accident. "An IAF Jaguar Trainer aircraft met with an accident during a routine training mission and crashed near Churu in Rajasthan, today," it said in a brief statement. "Both pi ...Read More >
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