A judge in India’s Supreme Court has insisted that nobody can blame the aircraft’s captain.
Source: Blame game over Air India crash goes on
it bugs me that there should be a stark, high-prioirty alarm on have the fuel cutoff, esp. during this phase of takeout (literally, at take off, the most critical time to not lose thrust). what still isn’t clear to me is if trhe switches have sensors that detect position; if so, and if the dsata recorders capture that switch state, then should be able to say definitively if the switches were moved to tyhe off.
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Meanwhile the flight data recorder, he suggests, may have registered the command to shut off the fuel supply, rather than any physical movement of the cutoff switches in the cockpit.
In other words, the switches themselves may not have been touched at all, until the pilots tried to restart the engines.
