Could This Overlooked Error Be the Hidden Cause Behind the Devastating Air India Crash?
Captain Steve discounts bird strikes and dirty jet fuel
Image credits: John McArthur (Not the actual photo)
“The gear never comes up,” the aviator told an anchor in a virtual meeting, claiming that it “creates a tremendous amount of drag.”
He then pointed to the plane’s short ascent before it started to “lose lift.”
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“The only plausible explanation for this is the loss of power theory.”
In lay terms, this usually happens when the jet’s engines stop performing as they should, which is usually the result of dirty fuel clogging up the supply lines or birds flying into–in this case–both engines.
Image credits: Captain Steeeve
The veteran flyer immediately debunked his second theory when he pointed out that the CCTV footage of the Boeing 787’s last moments depicts no birds.
“Now the video is from a distance and it’s grainy,” he admits, “but that would have to be a lot of birds to take out both engines.”
Contrary to what many assume, Captain Steve believes the plane’s engines never lost power
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“I think that the engines were operating at full capacity,” the commercial pilot asserted.
But the problem, according to him, lay in a simple error that quickly became irreversible and turned fatal.
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“[The aircraft] climbs up right about [to] the point where the pilot flying would ask for the gear to be raised up into the aircraft,” Captain Steve says.
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