2025-07-12
29 分钟You're listening to the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.
This edition is published in the early hours of Saturday, the 12th of July.
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One month ago Air India Flight 171 plunged into a building seconds after taking off from Ahmedabad Airport. 260 people died including all but one person on board.
An initial report released in India in the early hours of Saturday says both fuel control switches in the cockpit were moved to the cut-off position just after takeoff.
This caused both engines to lose thrust.
In the voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why he did the cut-off.
The other pilot responded that he didn't.
So what does it all mean?
David Gleave is an aviation safety investigator.
I'm not ruling out the possibility of some software issue or an electrical arcing problem or something like that causing the signals to the relevant computers from sending that type of signal.
The one second time gap is typically associated with how frequently the switch positions are sampled.
So it could have been almost instantaneous.