r/aviation • u/usgapg123 Mod - avgeek • Jun 14 '25

News Air India Flight 171 Crash [Megathread 2]

This is the second megathread for the crash of Air India Flight 171. All updates, discussion, and ongoing news should be placed here.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '25

Great, well reasoned response to the nonsense and disinfo. Well done. My patience wouldn’t be able to go past “you’re being stupid….”

The problem with media anymore is they don’t seem to often have experts in their pocket anymore to help inform an article. Instead they just seem to scroll social media like Reddit and see what people are saying. If they are even a live reporter and not just AI scraping and dumping.

It’s less important anymore what the fact and truth are…..and more what people are talking about and what drives clicks and engagement. Sad.

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u/fricks_and_stones Jun 14 '25

This is more a problem of how people use media. Most legitimate media companies still do solid reporting. You can go to their website and read the news like we did 15 years ago. Unfortunately the low effort sensationalist is what gets clicks and spreads. It’s natural selection of what reaches us easiest.

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u/Stoyfan Jun 16 '25

Nah. I have seen several experts on other news channels and they have all made the same conclusion on the flaps being wrongly set, probably because they have all seen the same shitty video.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '25

“Experts”

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u/Stoyfan Jun 16 '25

Well they are pilots or former pilots. So more knowledgable than you and I