The spotlight of attention continues to probe the life of late Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, 56, after it was suggested that he intentionally cut the fuel supply to the doomed Air India Flight 171 on June 12.
Last week–mere days after India’s civil aviation authority released a document reporting one pilot asking the other why he had cut off the fuel supply–it was learned that Sabharwal’s understudy, First Officer Clive Kunder, had his hands full with the throttle.
The ensuing analysis pointed out that Sabharwal, the senior pilot on deck, was unoccupied and highlighted his freedom to toggle the fuel switches.
