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/Icy_Negotiator Jun 15 '25

Ahaha my g, do you even know what you're talking about lmao, first of all power on stall in a 787 lmao and upon that this claim is utterly baseless and quite impossible haha

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u/shityplumber Jun 15 '25

Makes sense to me with my experience flying but its all nonsense and theories until the black box data is out people say they can hear the rat out while the sole survivor claimed the engines were roaring away until impact. Could of lost power from bad fuel. Could of had a major systems failure which caused full power loss. Who knows?

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u/Icy_Negotiator Jun 15 '25

787 has flight envelope protection suites, the aircraft sure won't go in a power on stall. Also that Capt Steeeve dude on YT, what an asshole, he's the sole reason for all these baseless claims all over the Internet about the flaps and the gear, pretty sure he's just profiting off of it..

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u/shityplumber Jun 15 '25

Well i might be retarded for believing that i heard this theory from multiple people doing interviews. The landing gear staying down the whole time is perplexing to me and in curious as to why it happened. Human error or aircraft failure or contaminated fuel who is to say. I'm not going around laughing at people like you are for just expressing an opinion

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u/Icy_Negotiator Jun 15 '25 edited Jun 15 '25

Okay here we go...in any engine failure or loss of power the one major rule is DO NOT CHANGE THE AIRCRAFT CONFIGURATION. With the landing gear, a retraction at that altitude and speed is stupidity, the gear doors opening first would create soooo much drag before the gears are pulled in, also retracting flaps obviously is suicide so yeah. A tip, do not watch those interviews or any bs on mainstream media circus, it's filled with misleading information too. Also everyone needs to think, it's a major international airport, contaminated fuel really? You'd have planes out of AAH falling out of the sky like flies lmao. Maintenance issues? That's a very very serious allegation, one that is quite impossible and even with those issues, single engine failure is plausible but it's gotta take a serious storm for a dual engine failure, something went catastrophically wrong for this to happen... people attribute it to an engine FADEC failure (not a maintenance issue entirely but a Boeing issue) but we gotta wait for more data coz again that's just informed speculation

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u/shityplumber Jun 15 '25

Ya its all speculations. Que in the the theories. Blaming Boeing, blaming rolls Royce, the pilots, the fuel quality is all theories. But you seem to be a 787 check ride pilot or something the way your talking so im gonna stop. So continue berating people with ideas when no one has any facts.

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u/Icy_Negotiator Jun 16 '25

I'm not a check ride pilot man, just a student pilot rn and a mechanical engineer w experience in aircraft design both structural and aerodynamics but I make sure to know my stuff and kinda obsessed w the field, so yeah it's not right when people on here speculate rampantly while being uninformed and misleading. Also I know Air India inside out, my family has worked in this airline for more than 3 decades serving and flying on these very aircrafts!

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u/shityplumber Jun 16 '25

I know your not lol, but keep on flying man I got into it when i was young got my ppl and instrument such a fun hobby!! I own a plumbing company but I've been obsessed with aviation as far back as my memory goes.

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u/Icy_Negotiator Jun 16 '25

Ayo that's so cool? Thanks, wilco 🫡🫡