Air India crash's initial report to be submitted this week
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New Delhi: A fake message claiming to be a preliminary investigation report into an alleged crash of Air India Flight AI-171 is circulating widely on WhatsApp. The Press Information Bureau (PIB) took to social media to issue a fact-check.
The crash, which occurred moments after take-off from Ahmedabad, killed 241 of the 242 people on board and another 19 on the ground.
The truth about what triggered the fatal crash of the Dreamliner should not only help bring the guilty to book, but also outline the future course of action in aviation safety, notes Nivedita Mookerji.
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Inside the Air India AI-171 Crash Investigation How Simulator Science and Black Box Data Are Shaping the Search for AnswersIn the commercial airline universe, the chances of a simultaneous dual-engine failure at takeoff are so low approximately 1 in 140 billion flight hours that the very situation appears to be nearly impossible.