Comments on: Thoughts and Theories on the Air India Disaster

By: Penny in Amsterdam

Penny in Amsterdam — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:25:31 +0000

Do we have any update on the idea that birdstrike could have been responsible? Restarting one or both engines would have involved cutting the fuel switch, reopening and then attempting restart. Of course a desperate measure if you’re only at 400 feet. No time for “gear up” and anyway by then you would have been hoping for the shortest possible go-around.

By: Rod

Rod — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 23:11:51 +0000

Well well well — a reminder of just how fallible crash investigations can be. Talk about confirmation bias.

Anyone who has watched Magnar’s videos over the years knows his soft voice & studious, undramatic manner. It can make his presentations almost dry on occasion, even mildly hypnotic. But that predisposes me to take this video on the Germanwings disaster very seriously. As he points out, it has been cited repeatedly in connection with the Air India crash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_MkjcUUTrk&ab_channel=FlywithMagnar

By: Avi

Avi — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 01:23:33 +0000

This theory deserves a look https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl1kUudq7Tw

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:58:32 +0000

In reply to Graham Pearce. The fuel switches were found in the RUN position. Also, the RAT cannot start the engines.

By: Graham Pearce

Graham Pearce — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 09:51:37 +0000

The Indian Air Investigation Bureau says that the fuel switches were in the “cutoff” position when found and produced a photo of the blackened console. If a pilot had cut them off, how did the engines re-spool unless the switches were manually reset to run again? I think nobody touched the switches as the voice recorder states and that the theory of a catastrophic power failure is the most likely scenario with the RAT restarting the engines.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 01:08:57 +0000

In reply to anonymous. Actually, it’s not uncommon for pre-delivery aircraft to carry temporary N-numbers, even when in the colors of foreign carriers. I suspect that’s what we see in the picture. Additionally, some foreign carriers (Avianca for example), routinely register some of their planes in the United States. I can’t explain why the number is associated with the Piper. Maybe the Piper recently switched to that tail number from a different one. I believe the in 787 in photo is several years old.

By: Rod

Rod — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 13:26:29 +0000

anonymous: Cuz the name “Dreamliner” is 100% BS.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 10:45:18 +0000

Why does the photo of the Air India 787 have the registration number “N100BS” seemingly crudely edited onto it? No Air India plane is likely to be registered in the US, and that particular tail number belongs to a Piper PA-23 that’s been around since 1966.

By: Rod

Rod — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 10:55:41 +0000

Craig Ivinson, the investigators report one pilot asking the other why he had moved the switches to cutoff. This is a smoking gun: one pilot (presumably the first officer) SAW the other move the switches. (If he hadn’t actually seen it, his reaction would presumably have been different). Even if faulty soldering, or whatever, caused both engines to shut down simultaneously, that fault could not have moved the switches – each held by a spring in a detent — to the cutoff position.

Assuming (& we must) that the investigators are not maliciously inventing this exchange, we are left with two possibilities:
— a case of colossal absent-mindedness;
— deliberate suicide/murder.

Another possibility is that the guy who moved the switches asked the other why HE had done it, so as to put the investigators off the scent. This might be hard to imagine but should be considered.

By: Craig P Ivinson

Craig P Ivinson — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 08:23:20 +0000

I am here again with my thoughts about everything I have managed to read. So will start by saying I do not believe it was pilot errors

There was a maintenance bulletin issued by Boeing for a soldered connection on a component /pc card that could cause a break then make connation due to faulty soldering?? a weird one this, not a dry joint but a connection that may break and reconnected in tenths of a second due to vibration. it was deemed to be a non imperative action to inspect and repair WHY? This has been forgotten.

This very aircraft had electrical problems on its pervious flight They where reported by the crew No idea if any inspection was carried out. This has been forgotten.

On the fateful day of the crash one passenger survived who reported that he heard a loud ‘bang’ at some point on the aircraft during its taking off procedure. This seems to have been forgotten.

The tragedy that unfolded after this reported ‘bang’ was horrendous we have no idea at present fully happened on the flight deck.

I think too much emphasis is being given to the fuel cut of switches by the media and everyone else, there is a vast amount of other electrical and electronic equipment associated with these two switches. But there has been no evidence presented to say everything else was working okay and no malfunction of other components caused the RAT to deploy because both fuel cut off switches had been turned OFF and then back ON?.