The voices in the cockpit fuelling controversy over Air India crash
The voices in the cockpit fuelling controversy over Air India crash
Air India Express 171’s crash report offered no closure – just more speculation and one haunting, unexplained detail.
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Truth Analysis
Analysis Summary:
The article is mostly accurate, focusing on the mystery surrounding the Air India crash and the cockpit audio. It presents the information in a relatively neutral tone, though the focus on the 'haunting' detail introduces a slight slant. The core claims are supported by multiple sources.
Detailed Analysis:
- Claim: Air India Express 171's crash report offered no closure - just more speculation and one haunting, unexplained detail.
- Verification Source #1: Supports the claim that the report deepens the mystery.
- Verification Source #2: Supports the claim that the report deepens the mystery.
- Verification Source #3: Supports the claim that the cockpit audio deepens the mystery.
- Verification Source #4: Supports the claim that the cockpit audio deepens the mystery.
- Verification Source #5: Supports the claim that the cockpit audio deepens the mystery.
- Assessment: Supported
- Claim: Fuel cut-off switches were flipped seconds after take-off.
- Verification Source #1: Confirms that fuel cut-off switches were flipped seconds after take-off.
- Verification Source #5: Confirms that fuel was cut seconds after take-off.
- Assessment: Supported
- Claim: One pilot asked the other why he cut off the fuel and his colleague replied that he hadn't.
- Verification Source #3: Confirms that one pilot asked the other why he cut off the fuel and the other denied doing so.
- Verification Source #5: Confirms that one pilot asked the other why he cut off the fuel.
- Assessment: Supported
- Claim: Switching to 'cut-off' is a move typically done only after landing.
- Verification Source #4: Confirms that switching to 'cut-off' is typically done only after landing.
- Assessment: Supported
Supporting Evidence/Contradictions:
- Source 1: Fuel cut-off switches were flipped seconds after take-off, a preliminary report finds.
- Source 3: On the cockpit voice recorder, one pilot asked the other why he cut off the fuel and his colleague replied that he hadn't.