
Indian pilot associations have slammed speculative reporting around the preliminary probe into the Air India AI171 crash, after a Wall Street Journal report suggested that the Captain of the flight deliberately turned off the fuel control switches of the plane’s two engines. The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) stressed that the Indian Ministry of Civil Aviation’s report did not explicitly point to pilot error in its preliminary probe, while the Airline Pilots’ Association of India (ALPA-I) asked the media to refrain from spreading “unverified and speculative theories”.