{"id":5057,"date":"2025-11-13T06:35:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2.watchtowatch.top\/air-india-flight-171-the-final-report-is-out-and-what-investigators-found-inside-the-cockpit-changes-everything-news\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T06:35:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:35:19","slug":"air-india-flight-171-the-final-report-is-out-and-what-investigators-found-inside-the-cockpit-changes-everything-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2.watchtowatch.top\/?p=5057","title":{"rendered":"Air India Flight 171: The Final Report Is Out \u2014 and What Investigators Found Inside the Cockpit Changes Everything &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news2.watchtowatch.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2-22.png\" alt=\"Air India Flight 171: The Final Report Is Out \u2014 and What Investigators Found Inside the Cockpit Changes Everything - News\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-end=\"129\" data-start=\"0\">\n<p data-end=\"129\" data-start=\"0\"><img alt=\"'Why did he cut off?': what the report on the Air India flight 171 crash  found | Air India Ahmedabad plane crash | The Guardian\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a516887d59e03f64bcaa51c1cb859423718db525\/0_0_3385_2242\/master\/3385.jpg?width=700&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9e69ba340becb9c22d9f69ed39b6735b\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-end=\"129\" data-start=\"0\">\n<p data-end=\"460\" data-start=\"131\">The mystery surrounding Air India Flight 171 has finally reached its most unsettling chapter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-10\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<ins class=\"982a9496\" data-key=\"ddb3b0700bddfc212c9162fc838ba243\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/aj1559.online\/ba298f04.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The official final investigation report, released this week by India\u2019s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), has reignited questions about one of the deadliest and most perplexing aviation disasters in recent history.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"968\" data-start=\"462\">On June 21, 2025, Air India Flight 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, took off from Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi bound for Dubai with 260 people on board \u2014 247 passengers and 13 crew members.<\/p>\n<p>Within 42 seconds of takeoff, both of the aircraft\u2019s Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines failed almost simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft lost thrust, banked sharply left, and crashed into an open field near Gurugram, bursting into flames on impact.<\/p>\n<p>There were no survivors.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1298\" data-start=\"970\">At first, investigators assumed a catastrophic dual-engine failure \u2014 a mechanical impossibility under normal conditions \u2014 had caused the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>But when recovery teams retrieved the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) from the wreckage, what they found shocked even veteran investigators.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1486\" data-start=\"1300\">Both engine fuel control switches \u2014 the guarded levers that cut fuel to the engines \u2014 were discovered in the \u201cCUTOFF\u201d position, meaning the engines had been manually shut down.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1797\" data-start=\"1488\">According to the DGCA report, this discovery \u201ccannot be explained by aerodynamic, hydraulic, or electrical anomalies\u201d during the sequence of events recorded.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-11\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<ins class=\"982a9496\" data-key=\"573c89736e3c6ac1e7e694f9321951e8\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/aj1559.online\/ba298f04.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The switches, investigators wrote, \u201crequire deliberate movement by flight crew or mechanical interference inconsistent with normal flight operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Air India Boeing 787 crash report says fuel switches cut off : NPR\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3240x2160+0+0\/resize\/3240x2160!\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F13%2Fe8%2Fd82aefe9448e9ef6b01ade216964%2Fgettyimages-2219406070.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"2064\" data-start=\"1799\">The finding immediately raised two haunting possibilities: either a pilot deliberately shut down both engines, or a technical fault had somehow moved two protected switches within seconds of each other \u2014 a scenario engineers say borders on the impossible.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"2398\" data-start=\"2066\">In the months following the crash, theories split the aviation community.<\/p>\n<p>Early speculation, fueled by anonymous leaks, suggested a pilot suicide similar to the 2015 Germanwings Flight 9525 disaster.<\/p>\n<p>However, the final report complicates that theory.<\/p>\n<p>The cockpit transcript from the CVR captured confusion, not intent.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"2879\" data-start=\"2400\">At 06:04:11 local time, the first officer was heard saying, \u201cEngine one\u2019s losing pressure,\u201d followed two seconds later by the captain\u2019s exclamation, \u201cWe\u2019ve lost two!\u201d In the next ten seconds, both pilots struggled to restart the engines while declaring a mayday to air traffic control.<\/p>\n<p>The transmission cut off as alarms sounded, and the final recorded sound was the deployment of the Ram Air Turbine (RAT) \u2014 a backup power source that activates when both engines fail.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"3099\" data-start=\"2881\">\u201cThere\u2019s no verbal or behavioral evidence of deliberate action,\u201d said Captain Nalin Suresh, a retired pilot and former Air India safety trainer who reviewed the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were fighting to save that airplane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"3382\" data-start=\"3101\">Still, engineers are left with an equally troubling question: how could both fuel switches move to \u2018CUTOFF\u2019 on their own? The 787\u2019s design makes such movement physically difficult.<\/p>\n<p>The switches are spring-locked under safety guards, requiring two separate, firm hand actions.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"3870\" data-start=\"3384\">Some independent analysts now suspect a cascading systems failure linked to the electronic engine control units (EECs) \u2014 the same units previously implicated in a 2023 incident involving another 787 operated by Japan Airlines.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"3870\" data-start=\"3384\">\n<p data-end=\"3870\" data-start=\"3384\"><img alt=\"Boeing stock crash: Air India crash: Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashes in  Ahmedabad killing most of 242 onboard, Boeing stock drops nearly 5% in  early trading amid safety concerns - The Economic Times\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/thumb\/width-640,height-480,imgsize-104900,resizemode-75,msid-121804091\/news\/international\/us\/air-india-crash-boeing-787-dreamliner-crashes-in-ahmedabad-killing-most-of-242-onboard-boeing-stock-drops-nearly-5-in-early-trading-amid-safety-concerns\/boeing-stock-plunges-as-air-india-171-plane-crashes-in-ahmedabad.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-end=\"3870\" data-start=\"3384\">\n<p>\u201cA dual transient in the EECs could theoretically send a false cutoff command,\u201d said Dr.Mira Shah, an aerospace systems specialist at the Indian Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we\u2019ve never seen it happen twice, seconds apart, in the same flight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"4236\" data-start=\"3872\">Adding to the confusion are contradictions in the wreckage data.<\/p>\n<p>The flaps were found at position 5, standard for takeoff, but the landing gear appeared partially retracted \u2014 inconsistent with the timeline.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-12\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<ins class=\"982a9496\" data-key=\"724ba65e93a68f24c8f08f617da23d58\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/aj1559.online\/ba298f04.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The tower audio recorded the crew acknowledging takeoff clearance and a \u201cpositive climb,\u201d before the aircraft\u2019s signal vanished from radar.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"4579\" data-start=\"4238\">The report stops short of naming a definitive culprit.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it lists \u201cprobable causes\u201d \u2014 a combination of engine control anomalies and manual switch movement not fully explained by mechanical evidence.<\/p>\n<p>It also recommends urgent inspection of the fuel control and EEC systems across all Dreamliner fleets operating in India.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"4919\" data-start=\"4581\">Air India, in a brief statement following the report\u2019s release, expressed \u201cprofound sorrow\u201d for the victims and said it would cooperate fully with Boeing and Rolls-Royce on further analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing, for its part, has maintained that \u201cno evidence of design defect\u201d has been confirmed but has agreed to review sensor redundancy protocols.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"5191\" data-start=\"4921\">For families of the victims, the final report offers little closure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just want the truth,\u201d said Priya Menon, who lost her husband and two children on Flight 171.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it was a technical failure, we deserve to know.<\/p>\n<p>If it was something else, we deserve honesty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"5592\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\" data-start=\"5193\">Nearly five months after that June morning, the skies over Gurugram remain silent \u2014 but the questions left behind are louder than ever.<\/p>\n<p>The official report may have been released, yet its final pages read less like an ending and more like the beginning of a deeper mystery: was Air India Flight 171 brought down by a system failure no one saw coming, or by a decision no one can yet explain?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"129\" data-start=\"0\">\n<p data-end=\"460\" data-start=\"131\">The mystery surrounding Air India Flight 171 has finally reached its most unsettling chapter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-10\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<ins class=\"982a9496\" data-key=\"ddb3b0700bddfc212c9162fc838ba243\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/aj1559.online\/ba298f04.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The official final investigation report, released this week by India\u2019s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), has reignited questions about one of the deadliest and most perplexing aviation disasters in recent history.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"968\" data-start=\"462\">On June 21, 2025, Air India Flight 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, took off from Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi bound for Dubai with 260 people on board \u2014 247 passengers and 13 crew members.<\/p>\n<p>Within 42 seconds of takeoff, both of the aircraft\u2019s Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines failed almost simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft lost thrust, banked sharply left, and crashed into an open field near Gurugram, bursting into flames on impact.<\/p>\n<p>There were no survivors.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1298\" data-start=\"970\">At first, investigators assumed a catastrophic dual-engine failure \u2014 a mechanical impossibility under normal conditions \u2014 had caused the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>But when recovery teams retrieved the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) from the wreckage, what they found shocked even veteran investigators.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1486\" data-start=\"1300\">Both engine fuel control switches \u2014 the guarded levers that cut fuel to the engines \u2014 were discovered in the \u201cCUTOFF\u201d position, meaning the engines had been manually shut down.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1797\" data-start=\"1488\">According to the DGCA report, this discovery \u201ccannot be explained by aerodynamic, hydraulic, or electrical anomalies\u201d during the sequence of events recorded.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-11\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<ins class=\"982a9496\" data-key=\"573c89736e3c6ac1e7e694f9321951e8\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/aj1559.online\/ba298f04.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The switches, investigators wrote, \u201crequire deliberate movement by flight crew or mechanical interference inconsistent with normal flight operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Air India Boeing 787 crash report says fuel switches cut off : NPR\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3240x2160+0+0\/resize\/3240x2160!\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F13%2Fe8%2Fd82aefe9448e9ef6b01ade216964%2Fgettyimages-2219406070.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"2064\" data-start=\"1799\">The finding immediately raised two haunting possibilities: either a pilot deliberately shut down both engines, or a technical fault had somehow moved two protected switches within seconds of each other \u2014 a scenario engineers say borders on the impossible.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"2398\" data-start=\"2066\">In the months following the crash, theories split the aviation community.<\/p>\n<p>Early speculation, fueled by anonymous leaks, suggested a pilot suicide similar to the 2015 Germanwings Flight 9525 disaster.<\/p>\n<p>However, the final report complicates that theory.<\/p>\n<p>The cockpit transcript from the CVR captured confusion, not intent.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"2879\" data-start=\"2400\">At 06:04:11 local time, the first officer was heard saying, \u201cEngine one\u2019s losing pressure,\u201d followed two seconds later by the captain\u2019s exclamation, \u201cWe\u2019ve lost two!\u201d In the next ten seconds, both pilots struggled to restart the engines while declaring a mayday to air traffic control.<\/p>\n<p>The transmission cut off as alarms sounded, and the final recorded sound was the deployment of the Ram Air Turbine (RAT) \u2014 a backup power source that activates when both engines fail.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"3099\" data-start=\"2881\">\u201cThere\u2019s no verbal or behavioral evidence of deliberate action,\u201d said Captain Nalin Suresh, a retired pilot and former Air India safety trainer who reviewed the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were fighting to save that airplane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"3382\" data-start=\"3101\">Still, engineers are left with an equally troubling question: how could both fuel switches move to \u2018CUTOFF\u2019 on their own? The 787\u2019s design makes such movement physically difficult.<\/p>\n<p>The switches are spring-locked under safety guards, requiring two separate, firm hand actions.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"3870\" data-start=\"3384\">Some independent analysts now suspect a cascading systems failure linked to the electronic engine control units (EECs) \u2014 the same units previously implicated in a 2023 incident involving another 787 operated by Japan Airlines.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"3870\" data-start=\"3384\">\n<p data-end=\"3870\" data-start=\"3384\"><img alt=\"Boeing stock crash: Air India crash: Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashes in  Ahmedabad killing most of 242 onboard, Boeing stock drops nearly 5% in  early trading amid safety concerns - The Economic Times\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/thumb\/width-640,height-480,imgsize-104900,resizemode-75,msid-121804091\/news\/international\/us\/air-india-crash-boeing-787-dreamliner-crashes-in-ahmedabad-killing-most-of-242-onboard-boeing-stock-drops-nearly-5-in-early-trading-amid-safety-concerns\/boeing-stock-plunges-as-air-india-171-plane-crashes-in-ahmedabad.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-end=\"3870\" data-start=\"3384\">\n<p>\u201cA dual transient in the EECs could theoretically send a false cutoff command,\u201d said Dr.Mira Shah, an aerospace systems specialist at the Indian Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we\u2019ve never seen it happen twice, seconds apart, in the same flight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"4236\" data-start=\"3872\">Adding to the confusion are contradictions in the wreckage data.<\/p>\n<p>The flaps were found at position 5, standard for takeoff, but the landing gear appeared partially retracted \u2014 inconsistent with the timeline.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-12\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<ins class=\"982a9496\" data-key=\"724ba65e93a68f24c8f08f617da23d58\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/aj1559.online\/ba298f04.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The tower audio recorded the crew acknowledging takeoff clearance and a \u201cpositive climb,\u201d before the aircraft\u2019s signal vanished from radar.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"4579\" data-start=\"4238\">The report stops short of naming a definitive culprit.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it lists \u201cprobable causes\u201d \u2014 a combination of engine control anomalies and manual switch movement not fully explained by mechanical evidence.<\/p>\n<p>It also recommends urgent inspection of the fuel control and EEC systems across all Dreamliner fleets operating in India.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"4919\" data-start=\"4581\">Air India, in a brief statement following the report\u2019s release, expressed \u201cprofound sorrow\u201d for the victims and said it would cooperate fully with Boeing and Rolls-Royce on further analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing, for its part, has maintained that \u201cno evidence of design defect\u201d has been confirmed but has agreed to review sensor redundancy protocols.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"5191\" data-start=\"4921\">For families of the victims, the final report offers little closure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just want the truth,\u201d said Priya Menon, who lost her husband and two children on Flight 171.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it was a technical failure, we deserve to know.<\/p>\n<p>If it was something else, we deserve honesty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"5592\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\" data-start=\"5193\">Nearly five months after that June morning, the skies over Gurugram remain silent \u2014 but the questions left behind are louder than ever.<\/p>\n<p>The official report may have been released, yet its final pages read less like an ending and more like the beginning of a deeper mystery: was Air India Flight 171 brought down by a system failure no one saw coming, or by a decision no one can yet explain?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"460\" data-start=\"131\">The mystery surrounding Air India Flight 171 has finally reached its most unsettling chapter.<\/p>\n<p>The official final investigation report, released this week by India\u2019s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), has reignited questions about one of the deadliest and most perplexing aviation disasters in recent history.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"968\" data-start=\"462\">On June 21, 2025, Air India Flight 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, took off from Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi bound for Dubai with 260 people on board \u2014 247 passengers and 13 crew members.<\/p>\n<p>Within 42 seconds of takeoff, both of the aircraft\u2019s Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines failed almost simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft lost thrust, banked sharply left, and crashed into an open field near Gurugram, bursting into flames on impact.<\/p>\n<p>There were no survivors.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1298\" data-start=\"970\">At first, investigators assumed a catastrophic dual-engine failure \u2014 a mechanical impossibility under normal conditions \u2014 had caused the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>But when recovery teams retrieved the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) from the wreckage, what they found shocked even veteran investigators.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1486\" data-start=\"1300\">Both engine fuel control switches \u2014 the guarded levers that cut fuel to the engines \u2014 were discovered in the \u201cCUTOFF\u201d position, meaning the engines had been manually shut down.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1797\" data-start=\"1488\">According to the DGCA report, this discovery \u201ccannot be explained by aerodynamic, hydraulic, or electrical anomalies\u201d during the sequence of events recorded.<\/p>\n<p>The switches, investigators wrote, \u201crequire deliberate movement by flight crew or mechanical interference inconsistent with normal flight operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"2064\" data-start=\"1799\">The finding immediately raised two haunting possibilities: either a pilot deliberately shut down both engines, or a technical fault had somehow moved two protected switches within seconds of each other \u2014 a scenario engineers say borders on the impossible.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"2398\" data-start=\"2066\">In the months following the crash, theories split the aviation community.<\/p>\n<p>Early speculation, fueled by anonymous leaks, suggested a pilot suicide similar to the 2015 Germanwings Flight 9525 disaster.<\/p>\n<p>However, the final report complicates that theory.<\/p>\n<p>The cockpit transcript from the CVR captured confusion, not intent.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"2879\" data-start=\"2400\">At 06:04:11 local time, the first officer was heard saying, \u201cEngine one\u2019s losing pressure,\u201d followed two seconds later by the captain\u2019s exclamation, \u201cWe\u2019ve lost two!\u201d In the next ten seconds, both pilots struggled to restart the engines while declaring a mayday to air traffic control.<\/p>\n<p>The transmission cut off as alarms sounded, and the final recorded sound was the deployment of the Ram Air Turbine (RAT) \u2014 a backup power source that activates when both engines fail.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"3099\" data-start=\"2881\">\u201cThere\u2019s no verbal or behavioral evidence of deliberate action,\u201d said Captain Nalin Suresh, a retired pilot and former Air India safety trainer who reviewed the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were fighting to save that airplane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"3382\" data-start=\"3101\">Still, engineers are left with an equally troubling question: how could both fuel switches move to \u2018CUTOFF\u2019 on their own? The 787\u2019s design makes such movement physically difficult.<\/p>\n<p>The switches are spring-locked under safety guards, requiring two separate, firm hand actions.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"3870\" data-start=\"3384\">Some independent analysts now suspect a cascading systems failure linked to the electronic engine control units (EECs) \u2014 the same units previously implicated in a 2023 incident involving another 787 operated by Japan Airlines.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"3870\" data-start=\"3384\">\n<p data-end=\"3870\" data-start=\"3384\"><img alt=\"Boeing stock crash: Air India crash: Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashes in  Ahmedabad killing most of 242 onboard, Boeing stock drops nearly 5% in  early trading amid safety concerns - The Economic Times\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/thumb\/width-640,height-480,imgsize-104900,resizemode-75,msid-121804091\/news\/international\/us\/air-india-crash-boeing-787-dreamliner-crashes-in-ahmedabad-killing-most-of-242-onboard-boeing-stock-drops-nearly-5-in-early-trading-amid-safety-concerns\/boeing-stock-plunges-as-air-india-171-plane-crashes-in-ahmedabad.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-end=\"3870\" data-start=\"3384\">\n<p>\u201cA dual transient in the EECs could theoretically send a false cutoff command,\u201d said Dr.Mira Shah, an aerospace systems specialist at the Indian Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we\u2019ve never seen it happen twice, seconds apart, in the same flight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"4236\" data-start=\"3872\">Adding to the confusion are contradictions in the wreckage data.<\/p>\n<p>The flaps were found at position 5, standard for takeoff, but the landing gear appeared partially retracted \u2014 inconsistent with the timeline.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-12\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<ins class=\"982a9496\" data-key=\"724ba65e93a68f24c8f08f617da23d58\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/aj1559.online\/ba298f04.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The tower audio recorded the crew acknowledging takeoff clearance and a \u201cpositive climb,\u201d before the aircraft\u2019s signal vanished from radar.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"4579\" data-start=\"4238\">The report stops short of naming a definitive culprit.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it lists \u201cprobable causes\u201d \u2014 a combination of engine control anomalies and manual switch movement not fully explained by mechanical evidence.<\/p>\n<p>It also recommends urgent inspection of the fuel control and EEC systems across all Dreamliner fleets operating in India.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"4919\" data-start=\"4581\">Air India, in a brief statement following the report\u2019s release, expressed \u201cprofound sorrow\u201d for the victims and said it would cooperate fully with Boeing and Rolls-Royce on further analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing, for its part, has maintained that \u201cno evidence of design defect\u201d has been confirmed but has agreed to review sensor redundancy protocols.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"5191\" data-start=\"4921\">For families of the victims, the final report offers little closure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just want the truth,\u201d said Priya Menon, who lost her husband and two children on Flight 171.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it was a technical failure, we deserve to know.<\/p>\n<p>If it was something else, we deserve honesty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"5592\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\" data-start=\"5193\">Nearly five months after that June morning, the skies over Gurugram remain silent \u2014 but the questions left behind are louder than ever.<\/p>\n<p>The official report may have been released, yet its final pages read less like an ending and more like the beginning of a deeper mystery: was Air India Flight 171 brought down by a system failure no one saw coming, or by a decision no one can yet explain?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"3870\" data-start=\"3384\">\n<p>\u201cA dual transient in the EECs could theoretically send a false cutoff command,\u201d said Dr.Mira Shah, an aerospace systems specialist at the Indian Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we\u2019ve never seen it happen twice, seconds apart, in the same flight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"4236\" data-start=\"3872\">Adding to the confusion are contradictions in the wreckage data.<\/p>\n<p>The flaps were found at position 5, standard for takeoff, but the landing gear appeared partially retracted \u2014 inconsistent with the timeline.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-12\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<ins class=\"982a9496\" data-key=\"724ba65e93a68f24c8f08f617da23d58\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/aj1559.online\/ba298f04.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The tower audio recorded the crew acknowledging takeoff clearance 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