The Federation of Indian Pilots has filed a legal notice against the Wall Street Journal and Reuters over their coverage of last month’s deadly Air India crash, the group’s head, Captain MR Wadia, has told RT. He called the reports “irresponsible” and said they damaged the pilots’ reputations for suggesting crew error. The UK-bound Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed into a residential area in Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff on June 12, killing 241 of 242 people onboard and 19 people on the ground. A preliminary report by India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) found that cockpit fuel switches had been switched off seconds after takeoff, which shut down both engines. The reason for the fuel switches being moved remains unclear.
With the initial report in hand I suppose the lawsuit will have to claim that shutting off the fuel supply was done intentionally, and thus was not a crew error.
They meant to crash the plane, how dare you suggest otherwise!?
Or they switched off without the pilot’s input.
The pilot body accused the Western media – particularly the WSJ and Reuters – of misrepresenting the findings and blaming the crew.
The clowns coming here everyday whinging about biased news sources/propaganda are nowhere to be found 🤡
