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 Facebook and other social media platforms are all abuzz with theories
contradicting the investigation and preliminary report of the Air India B787
crash.  What is all your take on it?

  Indian nationals and conpiracy buffs are pretty much driving their belief
that either "Our pilots can not be that stupid.", or "An Indian would not kill
himself and almost everyone on that plane in a murder suicide incident."

So top down.

The fuel switches can NOT be moved automatically.  They must be manually
actuated, and in order to do that, they must be pulled OUT, then moved DOWN.
The AIB that was issued for defective or inactivated springs SHOULD have been
corrected in either the aircrafts next C or D check.  Failing to address this
would be on the Airlines MX department.

  Well, besides the usual spewing of "Engineers, Doctors, or Lawyers"
overnight on Facebook.  This has mainly been driven either by the "Bash
Boeing" crowd or Indian Nationalism.  I would jump on the "Too much
nationalism is a bad thing.", but that would make me as an American an
hypocrite right now.. So lets just move right along.

  Indian nationals are pretty much driving their belief that either "Our
pilots can not be that stupid.", or "An Indian would not kill himself and
almost everyone on that plane in a murder suicide incident."

So top down.

The fuel switches can NOT be moved automatically.  They must be manually
actuated, and in order to do that, they must be pulled OUT, then moved DOWN.
The AIB that was issued for defective or inactivated springs SHOULD have been
corrected in either the aircrafts next C or D check.  Failing to address this
would be on the Airlines MX department.here COULD have been a logic fault in
either of the Electronic Engine Controllers (EEC), or FADECs, or FUEL SYSTEM
MANAGEMENT CARDS (FSMCs), that might have triggered a logical shutdown
command, but the systems are REDUNDANT, Multiple engines, multiple cards,
multiple computers.  The chances of both systems failing and causing a fuel
system cutoff to both engines 1 sec. apart is so small as to be nonexistent.

The smoking gun that this was done by one of the pilots (And they should
release the CVR audio).  Those switches make a distinct sound, that should
have been picked up by one of the Cockpit Area Mic's "CAM"s.  Which should
correlate to the recording of the Fuel Switches being moved from RUN to CUTOFF
one after the other.

WORDS ARE IMPORTANT -
The Captain (Pilot Monitoring on this flight), stated to the First Officer
(Pilot Flying this flight).  "You cutoff.."  Which the FO replied, "Didn't"
Most monitoring pilots in this situation would first be confused as to why the
engines are rolling back, and start interrogating the EICAS, or engine
instruments looking for the cause.  He didn't, he know EXACTLY what had just
happened!  Either himself (To cover his actions), or the First Officer reached
down and moved the Fuel Switches from RUN to CUTOFF.

The people who are screaming BOEING coverup, or You are just blaming the
pilots because they are dead, have NO IDEA how an investigation of an incident
with a complex system work, and are biasing feelings over facts.

That is my 2 cent analysis.

Rug Rat (Brent Hendricks)
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