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Boeing 787 Crash Probe: Ram Air Turbine, Black Box, and ETOPS Reliability Under FireDecoding the black box is going to give an in-depth insight into what happened moments before the plane crash,” Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu said to journalists, highlighting the importance of flight data to untangle the tragic disappearance of Air India Flight 171.
As the world waits for answers on the fatal Air India crash, accident investigators have narrowed their focus on the engine fuel control switches.
A cockpit recording suggests the captain may have shut off fuel switches before Air India Flight AI171 crashed, killing 260 people.
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