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One year of AI-171 crash: AAIB says significant progress made in the probe, final report after completion of all investigative activities

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The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has issued an interim statement marking one year since the tragic crash of Air India Flight AI-171, emphasising...
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Pakistan Army’s Mi-17 helicopter crashes near Muzaffarabad amid massive protests in PoK, all 21 personnel killed

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A Pakistan Army Mi-17 helicopter crashed on Wednesday during take-off near Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), with all 21 personnel on board losing their...
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Air India grounds Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner after fuel control switch slips to ‘Cutoff’ during engine start

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The Boeing Dreamliner was grounded after a pilot reported the left engine’s fuel control switch repeatedly slipping from ‘run’ to ‘cutoff’ during startup.
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Vince Zampella, co-creator of ‘Call of Duty’ dies in car crash after losing control of his speeding Ferrari in Los Angeles

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Zampella's teams made some of the top-selling games ever, and he was a real pioneer in those fast-paced military shooter games.

US fighter jet and helicopter from USS Nimitz crash into South China Sea

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In a dramatic turn of events over the South China Sea, a US Navy fighter jet and a helicopter operating from the aircraft carrier USS...
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Air India under intense scrutiny after Ahmedabad crash, DGCA Audit flags 100 lapses including crew fatigue and training failures

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India’s aviation regulator DGCA has flagged around 100 safety issues at Air India, including crew fatigue and training lapses. Of those, seven were Level-1 violations.
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‘Expert’ claiming that pilots ‘deliberately’ crashed Air India 171 flight had earlier rejected this theory, goes back on his own beliefs

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Despite earlier warning investigators not to scapegoat pilots, Captain Ranganathan now claims the Air India Flight 171 crash involved intentional interference. Veteran pilot Captain Randhawa, however, calls the preliminary report vague and inconclusive.
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‘Advisory, not mandatory’: Air India responds to FAA bulletin on fuel switch, says all directives complied with

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Air India informed investigators that while it was in full compliance with all mandatory airworthiness directives and service bulletins for the aircraft, it had not conducted inspections suggested in the 2018 SAIB since they were advisory, and not mandatory.
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Cuttoff at takeoff: Did a Boeing system malfunction doom Air India flight AI171? Read the critical role of engine fuel switches and what the...

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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued warnings in the past about certain Boeing models being vulnerable to what is known as “fuel lock” or inadvertent fuel cut-off issues, caused not by human error, but by faults in the machine.
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Uttarakhand Helicopter crash: FIR filed against officials of Aryan Aviation officials for operating helicopter in bad weather and ignoring SOP

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An FIR has been registered against officials of Helicopter service operation Aryan Aviation after 7 people died in a crash of its helicopter in Uttarakhand today morning
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