Pilot Grouping Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) is considering legal action against the wall Street Journal (WSJ) Over the us-based publication’s reports related to the crash of Air India Flight Ai 171 on June 12.

The fip’s president cs randhawa criticized the WSJ’s Recent Report, adding that the publication was insuating pilot action even thoughts thumb Engines.

“We strongly object to targetting of the pilots despit the preliminary report not mention pilot error or action. Randhawa Told the Indian Express. The fip has around 5,500 pilots as memers.

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In its latest report on the Ai 171 Crash Investigation, WSJ Said that details from the ill-fated boeing 787-8 Aircraft’s cockpit voice recorder has shifted to one of the pilots, no may have Fuel control switches. The WSJ Report Attributed The Information to “People Familiar with Us Officials’ Early Assessment of the Investigation” Without Identifying Anyone.

The Preliminary Investigation Report from India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) Said that Air India Plane Crashed After Both It Engines Starved of Fuel Control Sumition. From ‘Run’ to ‘Cutoff’ position with a second of each other moments after lift-off. From the cockpit voice recorder data, the preliminary probe report not that one of the pilots asked the other why he cut off the fuel, to which the other pilot responsnded he did not. The Report Just Says The Engine Fuel Control Switches That Allow and Cut Fuel Flow to The Plane’s Engines Transitioned from Run to Cutoff. It does not state these these people moved by Eather of the Pilots.

The Initial Probe Report does not Provide Details of the Rest of the Verbal Exchange Between the two pilots.

Various Pilot Groupings in India have hit out at the special sections of pilot action – deliberate or inadvert – That has followed the release of the prelimary probe report. Apart from the fip, the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA), and the Airline Pilots’ Association of India (Alpa-I) Have Also Flaged Insinuation Against the Pilots of the Dooms of the Dooms Investigation without any proof.

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Top Officials of the Aviation Ministry, Experts and Industry Insiders Maintained That Jump at Any Conclusion At This Early Stage of the Investigation Just Based on Limited Information In The Initial Report. There is a long way to go for the investigation and a lot could change as the probe programs over the coming months, they said. The Report, Too, Clearly Mansions The Disclaimer That It is Based on “Preliminary Facts and Evidance”, and that information it contains is “preliminary and subject to change”.

According to Experts, The Investigators Should Now Focus on Unerthing The Caus Behind of the Fuel Control Switches, which are used to allow and cut fuel supply to the engine. There is considerable speculation on which the switches were flickled by one of the pilots – Innocently or Otherwise – Right the transition signal to the system was due to any of the technical, mechanical, ore. Issue. The Report did not issue any recommendation to other operators of the boeing 787-8 Aircraft and its gee engines, suggesting that this stage, the invitation do not have to believe this. The plane or its engines.

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