Air India's 171 crashed...Fuel control switches were cut off

Fuel control switches were switched from "run" to "cutoff", before an Air India plane crashed last month, a preliminary investigation report by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Burea revealed early on Saturday.

Shortly after takeoff, and once the plane reached its top recorded speed of 180 knots, “the Engine 1 and Engine 2 fuel cutoff switches transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF position one after another" within a second, which caused a loss of engine thrust moments after it left the runway, the report revealed.

Shortly after both switches had been turned off, they were flipped back into the run position. One of the pilots transmitted "MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY," however, the plane could not gain power quickly enough after it had begun to lose altitude.

The flight lasted around 30 seconds before it crashed.

The report also revealed that, prior to the crash, one pilot could be heard on the cockpit voice recorder asking why the other had cut off the fuel. The other pilot responded that he had not done so.  MSN

The most critical moments of an aircraft movement are taking off and landing. When taking off, full power and maintaining full power are crucial for a safe take off. Cutting off fuel by switching off the fuel switches is never done as it would crash the aircraft. Every pilot knows that and would not do that.

Why were the switches turned off? Who turned off the switches? Definitely not the pilot or co pilot unless they did it deliberately to crash the aircraft. In this case this would not happen. Recorded pilot conversation, one pilot asked the other why he switched off the fuel. The other replied he did not. And the switched was in the on position, suggesting the pilot turned it back to on, or was it in the on position all the time?

 

So, how could the fuel switches turned off on their own? Mechanical problems? Unlikely as no switches would flip on its own unless it is wired and controlled by some software. The switch may be switched off if the software is faulty or being hacked, or being programmed to do so, like a kill switch, or being switched off deliberately by someone other than the pilots.  A software or a kill switch that can turn off the fuel is deadly and cannot be allowed in the first place. This kill switch facility must be removed in all aircraft immediate. This function was introduced after the 911 incident to justify ground operators to take control of the aircraft in a hijack situation. Caveat, if there is indeed such a kill switch installed.

If the investigation team does a thorough job, more evidence would be uncovered. By the way, China's Southern Airline had sold all its 787-8 Dreamliners as a safety measure, in consideration of the safety of all its passengers and air crews.  Better to be safe than sorry.

Many operators of Boeing 787-8 are investigating the fuel cut off switch, physically and mechanically. The control and problem are the software that controls it.

Albanese should shut up about Taiwan when in China

 Aussie PM Albanese is in China supposedly for trade talks and improving relations. What the shit must he be talking about Taiwan and wanting to preserve the status quo, ie Taiwan remaining a separate part of China? Who does Albanese think he is? China is the one to decide what will happen with Taiwan, not little Australia. The issue of Taiwan has nothing to do with trade and improving relations with China. Raising Taiwan, Tibet or Xinjiang is the white men's way of provoking China, telling China they have a right to meddle with China's internal affairs. This applies to all the western rogues that went to China. They are guests and need to behave themselves and stop being rude to their hosts. China's domestic affairs are none of their business. You to trade with China, talk trade.

The Chinese do not meddle with the domestic affairs of other countries. When they visit or meet with foreign delegations, they talk about trade and matters of mutual cooperation. The Chinese never raise issues concerning the internal affairs of other countries. They never tell the Aussies to return their land to the aborigines. They never ask the Aussies to repent for their crimes against the aborigines. Why are these rude and cocky white men always want to meddle with China's domestic affairs? 

Australia is just another little Mickey Mouse but behaving like it is superpower. It is insignificant, irrelevant in international politics. Australia should not think too highly of itself. The days when it can bully the Pacific Island nations and Asean nations are over. China can write off Australia and cut off all trade and relations with Australia and trade with the rest of the world. Without China, Australia would go into recession immediately.

However, China is partially to be blamed for the rudeness of these white foreigners. China allows these white foreigners to be rude even in Beijing and just respond with a stupid smile when the foreigners are rude and insist on meddling with China's internal affairs. If China continues to allow foreigners to misbehave while being welcomed as guests in China, the foreigners will take it as a sign of weakness and that China is afraid to offend the foreigners.

Wondering why it is so difficult for China to learn to deal with rude foreigners. After being bullied for centuries by the white men, it becomes second nature, not knowing how to stop it or even telling the foreigners to stop being rude. When the foreigners are rude, it is them telling China that China can be kicked around.

So they will continue to slap China straight in their face, in China, until one day when China dares to stop them. When would China dare to stop being humiliated and put an end to this? Hopefully not too long. Rude visitors must be treated rudely and shown the door. That is the only way they know, as they asked for it. Why be gracious and invite rude visitors and be slapped in their own house?

All the white rogues know what they are doing. They want to sit on the Chinese, to tell the Chinese that the white men are superior to them. Albanese said it on purpose, to put the Chinese in their right place, the place that China sat during the hundred years of humiliation.

PS. Albanese also talked about Australia's policy of strategic ambiguity on Taiwan, which is the same as the Americans. Strategic ambiguity is the Americans' way of saying we speak in forked tongue, we say one thing, mean another.

Trump gives up on MAGA

Believe me, destroying USA is not so easy, but Trump is doing a great job with all the right moves to turn the USA into a third world country. With his team of super clowns urging him on and not to pull him back from the precipice, Trump must be thinking he is doing very well indeed.

I seem to see that Trump is no longer wearing his MAGA hat (Make American Great Again) that was the object burned by protestors. He migrated to make the Gulf of America great instead. Make America Great Again has been burnt I would think.

If I am not mistaken, those hats were reported to be made in China earlier on. I may be wrong, as I saw some videos of Trump and his sidekicks making hats themselves, LOL. Oh sure, all made in USA and proudly advertised.


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The new war game...China and Russia can hit back, real hard

Ironically, not many reports cover the hypersonic missile issue and its effect on the USA and how it is doing to counter this new game changer in the hands of Russia, China and Iran. Not talking about it does not mean the problem for the USA will just go away. Only a war against Russia, China or Iran will wake up the clowns in Washington, thinking it is still way ahead in military technology. Just listen to Trump's grandstanding comments about how great the USA weapons are. And he even boasted about wanting to bomb Moscow and Beijing. We knew very well that the USA had broached the idea of nuking China many times before.

As Bruce Lee used to point out to those martial artists from Japan and South Korea hitting boards into fragments with bare hands trying to scare him. Bruce pointed out sarcastically that boards do not hit back, but he does. Same as USA hitting Moscow and China and getting retaliated against.

Russia and China will hit back at Washington, perhaps with weapons that Trump has never seen or thought of before. What Iran did to Israel is already enough for Trump to think about clearly what he could expect bombing Moscow or Beijing. With two on one, Trump has nowhere to hide. Trump is a coward only brave enough to bully the weak, if you remember him rushing to hide in a bunker after a skirmish at the White House related to the death of George Floyd in 2020 before Joe Biden took over.

If an attack on Moscow or Beijing really takes place and retaliation resulting in Gaza like destruction in Washington, Trump will yet again blame Joe Biden. The flood and death toll in Texas is now sure enough being blamed on Joe Biden. Thankfully, Joe Biden does not remember a thing. Dementia is bliss.


Anonymous

China ripping off America or America ripping off China?

Trump probably does not know how much USA drugmakers are depending on China for the raw materials. There are reports that some drugs made China and using USA drugmakers label are sold at exorbitant prices in the USA that costs just a fraction of the price in China. Which is why healthcare cost in China is so cheap. Cheap but not necessarily inferior.

According to Kevin Wamsley, some drugs made in USA cannot work without input of some ingredients from China. China should stop exporting those ingredients right away, not to help some big name drugmakers make tons of money ripping off sick USA citizens.

Trump is fond of telling everyone that China is ripping off the USA. It is in fact the other way round, with USA ripping off Chinese manufacturers making luxury brands for them at cheap prices, for those items to be sold at exorbitant profits. Examples are iPhones, luxury handbags and Rolex watches.

Using fiat money printed out of thin air in exchange for products made with sweat and hard labor is a much more real semblance of ripping off everybody else.


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