The pilot body, Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP), has claimed that the Air India aircraft suffered from a “plethora of problems," including electrical failures.
The federation urged investigators to include independent subject matter experts before arriving at a final conclusion, according to a report by News18.
FIP president Captain CS Randhawa said the organisation has consistently maintained that the Air India plane crash was linked to an electrical failure.
He claimed there were several gaps in the preliminary investigation report. According to him, the aircraft had arrived from Delhi with a stabiliser problem, following which the motors were replaced before it was declared fit for service, News18 reported.
Further alleging that the aircraft had electrical issues, Randhawa argued that the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) evidence cited in the preliminary report covered only two seconds, adding that “Western media picked it up as a deliberate attempt."
“Of late, we have learnt that there have been ACARS messages. So we found that there are a lot of messages which have been transmitted and of which no mention was made whatsoever in the preliminary report by the AAIB," he said, News18 reported.
Randhawa further alleged that Boeing 787 aircraft have experienced multiple technical issues, including problems with the Ram Air Turbine (RAT), batteries and instances of water flooding in the electronic bay located behind the cockpit. He claimed there have also been glitches involving the 787 with other airlines.
The FIP chief called for greater technical expertise and independence in the investigation process and rejected the what he described as the “pilot suicide theory" that gained traction after portions of the cockpit transcript were reported by sections of the Western media.
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