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Air India Flight 171 - Flawed EE Bay Water Ingress Theory Richard Godfrey, in many videos on the YouTube channel Airline News with Geoffrey Thomas puts forward the hypothesis that the Air India…

Air India Flight 171 Accident Summary - Key Findings The purpose of an air accident report is to establish the most probable cause of the accident.  An air accident report should make…

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Air India Flight 171 - Ask The experts An open letter to H. Lawrence Culp, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)GE Aerospace Dear Sir, the pilots of Air India Flight 171 could be entirely…

Air India Flight 171 - The Vital Seconds The Timeline - Vital Seconds. This timeline is constructed from what little information was given in the AAIB Preliminary Report, together with what is…

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Air India Flight 171 Accident - The Most Probable Cause In this article a combination of known facts and Newtonian mechanics is used to show that the most probable cause of the tragedy was a software…

Air India Crash: Update #5 - It's Dust, Not Smoke A few media content creators and commenters keep returning to the topic of the swirls of what they refer to as smoke which they claim can be seen in…

Air India Crash: Update #4 - Lessons From The Past Lessons From Fact And Fiction. It is widely stated that those who do not learn from the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them.  This…

Air India Crash: Update #2 - The AAIB Report Revisited This is another update to my article Air India Crash: When 2 + 2 Does Not Compute, with evidence and argument in support of my assertion that…

Air India Crash: Update #3This is another update to my article Air India Crash: When 2 + 2 Does Not Compute with fresh evidence and arguments. Many people assume, wrongly, that the chance of two…

Air India Crash: Update #1This is an update with fresh evidence and arguments to my article Air India Crash: When 2 + 2 Does Not Compute . The "smoke" at liftoff The plume is almost certainly dust…

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Air India Crash: When 2 + 2 Does Not Compute 2 + 2 Does Not Compute, But 1 of 4 AND 1 of 4 DoesOn 12 June 2025 a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad Airport, India.…

Air India Crash: When 2 + 2 Does Not Compute 2 + 2 Does Not Compute, But 1 of 3 AND 1 of 3 Does On 12 June 2025 a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad Airport, India.…