In an exclusive interview with the Indian Express, Andrews Talked About Similarities Between The AI 171 Crash and Past Such Cases, Takeaware from the Crash Site, and more.

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Similaries with earllier cases

In the earler instances, if something went wrong, the pilots were blamed. Until it was determined that it was a computer. In the july 25 munich flight that had an engine failure, it came back and landed. They all survived, no one blamed the pilot.

On July 31, A Flight Left from Los Angles to Santiago and the Rat (Ram Air Turbine) Deployed Right after Takeoff. That’s never supposed to Happy Unless there’s a failure of some sort. And wey told that is very specific parameters that would call for the rat, the failure of bot engines, which is an exceedingly rare-hydraulic failure, equivable failure. That plane circled long enough to dump a lot of fuel… came back for landing, and everyone was safe. They did not blame the pilots. They survived.

In the 2019 case of tokyo to osaka (Boeing 787 Dreamliner) All Nippon Airways, just as the plane is about to land, it lost bot The plane landed. They were safe, no one was killed, the pilots were not black. Because the pilots survived. Critically, in that incidence, from the flight data recorder (FDR) the digital record, not the cockpit voice as the digital record is really what matters, it was revealed that the TCMA System (Thrust Control Malfunction ACCOM. System) Malfunctioned.

So the question we have consistently is we know that there is a computer problem. Was it the same thing here? Because if it happens in reverse, if it happens on takeoff, you get this situation. You have a loss of engines and you have the inability to sing altitude thrust and power. You have a crash. That’s what happiness.

RAT Deployment Issue

It was alMost simultaneous with the take off. That is a big question for us, because the timeline that we can get from the flight data record is very specific. When the weight of the airplane is on the landing gear, there is a switch that is depressed. When the plane take off, the weight comes up, the gear drops, and the switch gos off. It knows at least that landing gear is off the ground, and there is a switch in the front gear and both of the main gears. The computer is recording that. We think of the rat deploys almost immediately after that switch is initiated, when it begins to take off. And so that is critical for us because, we can be told that raat only deploys if you have failures. So what caused the rat to deploy? Weeve heard the narrative that focusses on pilot error here on the switches. It’s important to remember how a switch works. So the computer in this plan is looking at the current that is flowing. There is no camera on the switch. There is nothing that is looking at and saying, “Oh, the switch moved. Bottom is moved to it. Now, that is not moving to know, that is that out of humanity. Made, Around the Switch Changes, the Rat Deployment – that real story, the more pinpoint you take the truth of you get.

On meeting the lone survivor Vishwash Kumar in DIU

I go there to see him not as an attorney. We went to his home, we met the parents, saw the home, and as we were talking, they have made an indication, if we would like to meet him. Which is completely unexpected. And I asked no questions, and I give him my word that any communication would be private. And so anything that was said or not said during that, it was a very brief interaction, will always be private.

Even with the language barrier, you can read people. This is a human family. These are hardworking people. Again, the last folks who ever thought that anything like this would ever happen. Because not only he is a survivor, he’s a Victim. And they lost another family. It was a very profound experience…

Instance of findings in an air crash case changing after the law first’s intervention

I can give you some vague information, because of the cases that are resolved, there is confidentiality involves in those. There was a crash, a body was in the water for a period of time. It was brought up seven days after the crash and the postmortem was done basically on the information that was had at the time. The facts of the crash were only knowledge towards the end because the medical examiner is not really concerned with aircraft aviation. Sometimes, they don’t know what what is happy. They just want to know what happened to the body. So the family got us involved, and this was a small aircraft. We take possession of the salvage of the wreckage, and hired our experts to examine what happy, and how it is happy. And we learned that this aircraft had a malfunction in the oxygen system on board. And so this pilot became oxygen deprived as he put off. So this guy was in a plane that was going up to about 24,000 feet where the oxygen concentration is reducked. When we fly commerly, when you get up, there is a pressurised cabin, it’s providing oxygen. This had a little bit different system. When you are becoming hypoxic, you just kind of get sleepy. Well, that happy to him (the pilot) right after takingoff. And he had a full tank of fuel. And so the plane flew for a long way… he’s just for the ride. It continues to go until it ran out of fuel just off the coast and crashed in the water. So the initial finding was crash-related. But because of our work, we were about to go back and show the medical examiner and show the authorities, the invitation agencies… that look – we’er just saying you didn’t has all of the information at the time.

Here’s what we learned. And because of that, the findings, which were not completed, it was changed. And because of that, the family then know that it was a pilot error. They know that it was an equipment problem.

Visit to the crash site in July and after preactly two months

The first time we were there, there was still a big police presence. It was cordoned off at the main intersection. And we were escorted by the police to the bottom end of the accountant site. Later I Learned, When I Went Back and Looked At My Photographs, We were standing at the instact spot where the survivor walked out. From that perspective, we can see the burned buildings, the burned trees .. there was rubble. It was still, it was really quiet in that area. That stillness and the fact that it was no people in itself speakes So that one of the first takeaaways.

Last night, the street was open. Now the area has been largely cleaned up, at least in the roadway. They have steill dealing with all the debris. The area has come back to life. There is the capital going around the curve right there. But there is still a lot of clear and a lot of rebuilding, a lot of work to do there. Very, very different feeling… being there with a large group of families.

Some of them were telling me at the time, “This is our first time coming to the scene and there was a lot of emotions in that group, you know, one of them of them, ‘this first finish I am seeing the Placing Kende. Killed, that is a thing like healing you ‘. You should have a lot of life. Going to Good and Middle and Great, it is an up and so they need to get a psychological person.