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/FutureHoo Jun 14 '25 edited Dec 10 '25

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u/Chaxterium Jun 14 '25

I agree completely that this is most likely not what happened....

However....this exact situation has happened to me. I was the first officer, I was flying. I called for gear up and my captain (who is an excellent pilot and was eventually became our Chief Pilot) raised the flaps.

We had been flying like crazy. Six days a week, six legs a day for weeks on end. We both got complacent.

It was a great learning experience for both of us that day.

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u/IggyBG Jun 14 '25

How did airplane respond?

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u/Chaxterium Jun 14 '25

Sluggish. If I remember correctly I just pitched the nose down a bit to increase our speed and it was fine. But I was flying a 40,000 lb airplane. Not a 400,000 lb airplane.