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The Indian aircraft accident investigation bureau has released the results of the airline’s Boeing 787-8 aircraft accident investigation. Indian water who fell in Ahmedabad. The results of the investigation showed that the accident occurred because the fuel switch on both aircraft engines was dead.
Summarized detikcom as a report AFPSaturday (12/7/2025), the fuel switch moved from the position of ‘run’ to ‘cutoff’ a few seconds after taking off. Even so, the investigation was not written who was responsible for the accident on June 12 which killed 260 people.
The report said that a pilot asked other pilots why he turned off fuel, and the second pilot answered that he did not do it.
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The Indian investigation bureau said that after the aircraft reached the highest speed recorded, “the fuel switch to the engine 1 and the engine 2 switched alternately from the run to the cutoff position within 1 second.
“In the kokpit voice recording, one of the pilots was heard asking another pilot why he turned off the switch. Another pilot answered that he did not do it,” he said.
The aircraft quickly began to lose height. The switch then returned to the “run” position and the engine appeared to start again, but “one of the pilots then sends ‘mayday mayday mayday'”, the report said.
The air traffic regulator asked what the pilot had a problem, but then he saw the plane crashed and called the emergency officers to the scene.
Earlier this week, The Air Current specialist website, quoting several sources who knew the investigation, reported that they had “narrowed the focus of the investigation on the movement of the engine fuel switch”. It is stated that the complete analysis will “take months, maybe even longer”.
They added that “the focus of the investigators can change during that time”.
260 people were killed
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Photo: Reuters/Amit Dave
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The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft took off from the city of Ahmedabad, in Western India, then crashed into a densely populated settlement area, hitting the hospital complex and medical student dormitory. The aircraft was carrying 12 crew members, 230 passengers consisting of 169 Indian citizens, 53 British citizens, seven Portuguese citizens, and one Canadian citizen.
In total there were 260 people killed in this accident. There was one passenger of the plane who survived, he was the only survivor victim on the plane.
The passenger was named Vishwashkumar Ramesh. He sat on an India Air plane to London in 11A seats.
Ramesh itself is a British citizen. He sat in the 11A seat. Ramesh survived when he sat in the chair.
He managed to get out of the ruins through a gap on the body of the plane. He crawled out and finally survived.
“I managed to release the seat belt. I pushed the gap using my feet, then I crawled out,” Ramesh told Indian government media, DD News.
The seconds of the plane crashed
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Photo of Indian Air Timber Settlement: (Reuters/Amit Dave)
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The 40-year-old man told the seconds of the Indian air plane crashed. He claimed for five to 10 seconds, he felt the plane like “caught in the air”.
Then, the plane crashed into a building that functioned as a doctor’s accommodation in Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College and Civil Hospital. Ramesh said that the part of the plane where he sat landed near the ground and did not come in contact with the building.
“When the door broke, I saw a little gap. I tried to get out of there and succeeded,” he explained.
“No one can get out of the opposite side facing the wall. That part is hit.
The man from Leicester did not believe he could come out alive from the ruins. Fortunately, he quickly realized that he was still safe from death.
“I see people died in front of the flight attendant’s wing, and two near me,” he said.
“I think I died too. But when I opened my eyes and looked around, I realized I was still alive.”
“I still can’t believe how I survived. I walked out of the ruins.”
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