On June 12th, 2025 a huge plane crash happened in Ahmedabad, India, when a Boeing 787 which had its destination London failed to take off due to a lack of power, falling into a medical school, killing almost all people on board (229 died and 1 survivor only) and 19 people on the ground.
Recently, the preliminary report has been released, and according to the data, the fuel switch has been turned off and then turned back on again, causing both engines to “stall”. I am not an expert about planes, just watched videos about planes and played flight simulator, but for me, this is very hard to explain if it is not done on purpose. In theory, in that moment, the flying pilot should put the landing gear up, but instead of this, he cut off the fuel supply. This switch has a security system to prevent accidental activation; therefore, using this switch 2 times (one for cutting off and another to enable) is almost impossible and very hard to explain.
This case reminds me of a case in which a pilot from German Wings in 2015, departing from Barcelona, crashed the plane on purpose to commit suicide and killed all the people on board. After that, more psychological checks were introduced, but even with them, it is impossible to know 100% the condition of a person, and have absolute security that they will never commit suicide.
We have to wait for the final report, which could take more than a year, but this is a very weird accident and seems intentional. Anyway, time will tell and I am sure that investigators will find the truth about what happened on that flight.
Source: Wikipedia.
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Omg, at first I thought it’s because of airplane. 😅 But in some way, this is more scary. It’s hard to know if the pilot is sane or not even with psychiatric tests.. 🥲😑