The preliminary report on the crash of Air India flight 171 in Ahmedabad last month, which claimed 260 lives, has caused a stir. Just prior to the tragic event, there was disorientation in the cockpit, according to the report. The report's conclusions, which suggest pilot error, have now been responded to by influencer Gaurav Taneja and lyricist and novelist Varun Grover.

What did the initial report say?

On Saturday, the initial report from the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) into the Air India flight 171 tragedy was made public. The catastrophe was attributed to the fuel supply to both engines being cut off soon after takeoff.

According to the report, one pilot asked his partner in the cockpit voice recording why he had cut off the fuel supply to both engines, but the other pilot refuted the question. The selective publication of a single paraphrased line from what may be many minutes of taped discourse has been criticized by several Indian professionals. In fact, India's pilot community also criticized the crash report, and aviation groups charged investigators with hurrying to imply that the flight crew was at fault.

Varun Grover responds

In response to the article, Varun also posted his displeasure on X, formerly known as Twitter, and criticized the results. "Shilling for Boeing," he said. The white guy will always side with the white guy. “Shame.”

Gaurav also took the social media route to share his frustration over the findings in the report. He tweeted, “As expected ‘Blame the deceased Pilots’. They can’t come back to defend themselves. #Being has a lot of questions to answer!! BBC already gave Boeing a clean chit! #AirIndiaFlightCrash”.

About the Air India crash

Soon after departing from Ahmedabad on its Boeing 787-8 plane operating flight AI 171 bound for London Gatwick, Air India's aircraft crashed on June 12 into a medical hostel complex, killing 241 of the 242 passengers. There were 19 more fatalities. It was the worst civil aviation accident worldwide in over ten years, and the worst in India in more than thirty.

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