- By Aditya Jha
- Sun, 20 Jul 2025 12:08 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
The investigators probing the Air India crash are reportedly closely examining the tail section of the crashed aircraft for more information. The investigators believe that the tail section could hold critical evidence, as it largely remained unaffected after the crash. The officials stated that while the tail assembly showed signs of a “contained electric fire", it was restricted to very few components of the rear section of the aircraft, reported the Indian Express. The officials further stated that the tail section had remained largely undamaged by the crash explosion, and even the fuel fire did not affect it.
While providing details, the officials stated that the components of the tail section have been stored safely in Ahmedabad, adding that it could lead to any conclusion regarding possible malfunction in the electric supply of the aircraft. “They hold the key for a detailed analysis of a possible malfunction in the electric supply of the aircraft during lift off,” an official was quoted as saying by The Indian Express.
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Vishwas Kumar Ramesh, the lone of the accident had also stated that before the lights of the plane were going off repeatedly during the take-off, which indicates a fault in the power supply, reported Jagran.Com. Ahead of takin off to London, a technical fault was reported in the STAB POS XDCR of the aircraft, which was repaired in Ahmedabad.
Earlier on July 12, the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) in its report revealed that both switches feeding fuel to the two engines of the flight 171 were cut off followed by pilot confusion before the plane crashed in Ahmedabad, seconds after taking off on June 12. The report had also revealed a conversation between the pilots in which one of the pilots could be heard asking the other pilot that why he had cut off the switches to the fuel.