Investigators probing the June 12 crash of Air India flight AI-171 from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick are taking a detailed take a look at a February 2020 incident in Gatwick, involving an Airbus A321, during which each engines malfunctioned instantly after takeoff. It led to a Mayday name earlier than the plane returned to Gatwick 11 minutes later after a turnaround.
In its 2020 investigation, the UK Air Accident Investigation Department (AAIB), which can be in Ahmedabad to probe the June 12 crash, discovered that the explanation for the engine failure was gasoline system contamination despite the fact that engineers had discovered no fault previous to clearing it for flying that night time.
Officers conscious of the continuing investigation into the Ahmedabad crash mentioned an intensive scrutiny of AI-171’s technical logs within the 24 hours previous the crash had been being seemed into because it was “clear from visible statement and wreckage” that the flight suffered an influence failure.
Chatting with The Indian Express Thursday, an officer mentioned the probe companies, in main observations from the accessible visible proof, statements of the controllers of Ahmedabad Air Visitors Management (ATC), upkeep engineers who cleared the flight on the bottom, and preliminary inspection of the wreckage, estimated that the plane skilled energy failure of the primary electrical system inside seconds of takeoff.
“The fabric proof, which incorporates the wreckage and the movies of the takeoff in addition to the crash, point out a particular energy failure on the flight. The trigger will probably be recognized solely when the black field knowledge is recovered however we are able to estimate that for the reason that flight was in a takeoff and its nostril pitched up for the liftoff, the deployment of the Ram Air Turbine (RAT) couldn’t assist the flight make a protected turnaround because it had not even achieved the minimal altitude of 3600 toes for a protected path,” the officer mentioned.
The black packing containers and the DVR have been recovered however the officer mentioned that the units had been broken and file extraction would “be a sophisticated course of”. In line with the officer, “deliberations had been on” about sending the black packing containers to the US the place the Nationwide Transportation Security Board (NTSB) might assist recuperate the recordings with superior experience.
The wreckage of the Dreamliner, the officer mentioned, had “not hinted” at any cockpit error, and the pilots “could have tried their finest to realize handbook management” for trying a turnaround.
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