Expert's theory on terrifyingly simple mistake he thinks Air India co-pilot made that caused crash and killed 265

Air India Express, the budget subsidiary of Air India, has been accused of falsifying safety records to the Indian civil aviation authority months before before a deadly Boeing 787 crash killed over 200 people. The airline was supposed to update certain components on CFM International LEAP-1A engines found on Airbus A320neo planes by a specified date. According to the information Air India Express submitted to the government, they did make these repairs by the date. Only problem is, that information is fake.

"In order to show that the work has been carried out within the prescribed limits, the AMOS records have apparently been altered/forged," said the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in a memo sent privately to the airline, later acquired by Reuters. This was all the way back in March, meaning that the Indian government knew that there were lax safety standards -- and more than that, outright safety fraud -- going on at Air India months before the tragic Boeing 787 crash in June. For its part, Air India Express claimed that the erroneous information was due "the migration of records," which sounds a bit like a fifth-grader explaining what happened to his homework. Pay no attention to the fact that it immediately fired its quality manager and suspended its deputy continuing airworthiness manager, which surely is entirely unrelated to record migration.


Plus I think I saw that all flights to America ended with no notice....maybe other places too.
 

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The Air India AI171 crash investigation seems headed the same way as China Eastern 5735—buried in silence, due to maintenance neglect by Air India. Authorities cite “national security” and “social stability,” but the public deserves transparency. Why the secrecy?
 
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