Passenger plane heading for London crashes after take-off in Ahmedabad, India

[TheLoneRanger]

An "aviation expert" just explained on tv , that safety issues were first raised with Boeing in 2018 about the location of the fuel cut off switches - that they could be switched off accidentally.

Boeing and the regulators said that no changes were required.

 

[MrSwerve]

To me (and this is just me speculating), it looks like pilot flying (first officer) takes off as normal, pilot not flying (captain) reaches back to cutoff the engines out of sight of the first officer…and the captain doesn’t alert to any visual EICAS warnings. When the alarms start to go off, first officer asks captain why they were moved to cutoff, engines startup is initiated and it’s too late.

It looks like that to me, as if the captain did this deliberately. But again, to stress, I’m speculating and could be off the mark.

 

[MrSwerve]

An "aviation expert" just explained on tv , that safety issues were first raised with Boeing in 2018 about the location of the fuel cut off switches - that they could be switched off accidentally.

Boeing and the regulators said that no changes were required.

Wow, I was unaware of that. I fail to see how that can happen accidentally (especially on BOTH cutoffs), but I’m not a 787 pilot.

 

[MrSwerve]

This is what the throttle/fuel section looks like, for those not sure.

 

[Jack2jack]

To me (and this is just me speculating), it looks like pilot flying (first officer) takes off as normal, pilot not flying (captain) reaches back to cutoff the engines out of sight of the first officer…and the captain doesn’t alert to any visual EICAS warnings. When the alarms start to go off, first officer asks captain why they were moved to cutoff, engines startup is initiated and it’s too late.

It looks like that to me, as if the captain did this deliberately. But again, to stress, I’m speculating and could be off the mark.

Looks like you weren't far off the mark.

‘Calm’ Air India captain ‘cut off’ fuel while co-pilot panicked

Black box captured plane’s panicked first officer asking captain why he moved switches

www.telegraph.co.uk