Priyanka Chaturvedi on Air India Plane Crash: Shiv Sena leader and Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi wrote a letter to Civil Aviation Minister Kinnajarpu Rammohan Naidu, raising a serious objection to the interim report released by the Air India Flight AI171 accident on the Air India Flight AI171 accident. He questioned how this report reached international media, especially The Wall Street Journal before being officially released in India.

It is wrong to convict dead pilot: Chaturvedi
Priyanka said, “I was not surprised at all that the report has completely convicted the pilot who has lost his life in this accident and can not present his side now.” He also alleged that a clean chit has been given to the three big companies, while she was responsible for the safety of passengers.

Demand for investigation and transparency of report leaks
Chaturvedi demanded in the letter that the report should be formally investigated by the report, the identity of the author of the report should be made public and the names and signature reports of all the members of the inquiry panel should be shown in the report. He said that the report was released “quietly” late at night, no press briefing was done nor there was transparency in conclusions.

Objection of pilot organizations also registered
He informed that pilot organizations have also objected to the investigation process. He says that there was no experienced aviator in the investigation team. Pilots’ organizations voluntarily offered to join as a technical supervisor to maintain fairness and technical accuracy.

Accused of tarnishing the image of pilot from media leaks
Priyanka Chaturvedi said that by leaking selected parts of the report, the image of the late pilot is being deliberately damaged, which is “condemnable”. He demanded from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting that a clear guideline should be made for media coverage of reports of agencies like AAIB.

Need to raise voice against ‘Narrator’
Chaturvedi wrote, “AI171 cannot be made mute spectators in the crashed and its report that is being made mute spectators. It is a matter of serious concern for public safety, pilot morale and India’s global aviation image.”

What was mentioned in AAIB report
Initial report of 15 pages released by Aaib on Saturday said that the fuel control switches of both engines of the aircraft went from ‘run’ to ‘cutoff’ in a few seconds of the flight. This rapidly lost height and collided with a building, killing 260 people, including 241 passengers.

Indications from cockpit recording, not technical fault
The reports did not identify the pilots, but in the cockpit voice recording, one pilot asks the other why he cut the fuel, while the other refuses it. The report also said that no technical fault was found in the aircraft, causing the pilot error to be considered a possible reason.

Pilots Association also expressed disagreement
Airline Pilots Association of India has objected to the AAIB report. He said that the investigation has been “immersed in privacy” and is biased against the pilot. The report has been prepared in a hurry and the conclusions are prejudiced.

Air India Plane Crash: The preliminary investigation report of Air India flight AI171 in Ahmedabad in Ahmedabad has come out. This report has revealed that in 2018, US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a special aircraft information bulletin (Saib No. NM-18-33) and warned about the possible problem of the removal of the locking feature of fuel control switch in Boeing aircraft. This bulletin was also involved in the planes like B787-8. Was.

What is the problem of locking feature of fuel control switch?
The fuel control switch locking feature is a safety system that prevents unintentional operation between fuel supply and cut-offs of the aircraft engine. The FAA report said that if this locking feature becomes inactive, then the switch can be replaced between the two positions (On and Off) without picking up the switch, which can lead to a serious event like unknowing engine shutdown.

FAA reported ignored
The report also stated that this warning of FAA was not mandatory, but was only advisory, so inspections related to it were not done. This is an important point, because if it had been investigated in time, the accident could have been avoided. Retired pilot Captain Ehsan Khalid of IAF said that the fuel cut-off switch is run physically by the pilot, it is not automatic. He said, ‘If the movement of the fuel cut-off switch has been recorded, then it is a sign of an attempt by the pilot to resume the engine. But the truth is that the power of the engine itself was closed, the pilot did not give any input, it is clear from the report.

What is in the preliminary report of AAIB?
The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has released a 15 -page preliminary report a month after the accident, which describes the preliminary investigation and the situation so far. The AI171 aircraft, which was going from Ahmedabad to Gatwick from London, collided with a medical hostel complex shortly after the takeoff. Only one of the 241 passengers could survive in this accident.

The report said that debris investigation, postmortem report and investigation of parts are still going on. So far no recommendation has been issued for B787-8 aircraft or GE GENX-1B engine operators.

Air India and Boeing are cooperating
Air India has said that it is fully supporting the investigation, and Boeing said that it will allow AAIB to share information under the Unnex 13 protocol of the United Nations International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).