Kolkata: Veteran pilots from various airlines who reviewed the Spare AI 171 Crash Report have questioned whether software defects or mechanical failures (whether the Boeing 787 Dreamliner fuel valve could be turned off) were excluded before it was released.The experienced pilot said he was interested in the report not even mentioning this possibility. “In the B 787, the fuel shutoff valve is controlled via a remote data unit (RDU). The left and right engines have independent RDUs, but the RCD and RDPU are networked, so the RCD and RDPU can be networked, which means that power is provided via software-based current current (RDPU).Veterans from another industry noted that valve closures due to power outages or software defects were flagged during the initial deployment of the B 787. The pilot also flags the reporting issues, including false or incomplete information that caused speculation about the pilot's fault.Evaluating the move to publish reports on key findings, the pilot noted that even basic information, such as Captain Sumeet Sabharwal's flight times, is incorrect. Sabharwal's airline transport pilot license was issued on May 14, 2021. The DGCA stipulates a maximum flight time of 1,000 hours a year, and by May 2025, he was able to spend 4,000 hours under a 4,000-hour belt as a pilot.The pilot also argues that the report is intentionally opaque about some issues, selectively using words and phrases to not only suggest human error, but also hint at the malicious intention behind the accident. They have three arguments to demonstrate this.First, one short exchange between the captain and mate is presented in the report in an indirect speech instead of releasing the overall transcript of interaction in the 21 minutes when the flight departs from the parking lot and then crashes. The most important section is 1 minute 22 seconds between ATC takeoff clearance and the Mayday call.“Why don't you get a complete transcript of conversations from the audio recorder in the cockpit, so you can understand the context? The report states:The pilot also pointed to the use of the phrase “transition” on fuel switches, rather than due to human behavior, suggesting that the cockpit man was the cause of a catastrophic accident.The Captain said: “In a very challenging and unprecedented situation, these men were doing their best to achieve the impossible, they were too close to the surface for recovery.He said that in the case of dual engine losses, the complete engine digital engine control (FADEC) that optimizes engine performance will be reset using the following steps: Shifts the thrust lever to idle. Run the fuel switch and then shift to the cutoff. “This is exactly what the pilots looked like they've done, and somehow managed to get one engine back, plunging into the building before the engine spooled,” he said.Sam Thomas, president of the Indian Air Pilot Association, said the tone and direction of the investigation suggests a bias towards pilot error. “Alpa-I has defied this presumption and advocated for a fair, evidence-based investigation,” he said.
