Blackbox Data REVEALED: Air India 171 (JUST OUT)

Critical new blackbox information just

out moments ago on what happened on Air

India flight 171. This is a big deal and

we've got to talk about it. Hey

everyone, I'm Meet Kevin. I'm a

multi-engine rated a jet pilot and am

rated as a single engine pilot in

command, which means I could technically

fly the plane alone. In this video, I'm

going to give you perspective into why

what happened could happen in any Boeing

situation in a two pilot in command

situation and it's really scary. But

first, let's get into what the Wall

Street Journal just broke because it's a

big deal. First, the Wall Street Journal

is just now arguing that a blackbox

recording of dialogue between the

flight's two pilots indicates the

captain was the one that switched off

the control fuel flowing to the plane's

two engines, according to people

familiar with US's officials early

assessment of evidence recovered in the

accident investigation. Now, what's

interesting about this is the United

States investigators have really gotten

the cold shoulders with these black

boxes. It took India 2 to 5 days to find

the two black boxes. Two for the first,

5 days for the second. Then India said

they were going to send the black boxes

to America, but then they changed their

mind and refused and said that they were

going to conduct the investigation

locally. Then they gave us a preliminary

report that was extremely almost

purposefully vague about what happened

in this aircraft. First of all, if they

have the black boxes in the cockpit

voice recorder, why would they only tell

us, quote, "The engine one and engine

two fuel cutoff switches transition from

run to cutoff one after another with a

time gap of 01 seconds." Why did they

not say there were no cast messages

before this indicating any kind of crew

alerting system message cast message

suggesting there was a problem and an

emer an emergency procedure needed to be

followed? Why didn't they mention that

it was the co-pilot who was at the

moment flying and it was the captain who

switched those switches to the off

position. Why are we getting this

through leaks? Now, we knew who was

flying, but why are we getting through

leaks that it was indeed

the nonflying

pilot who was turning who turned these

switches off? This is very odd to me.

And why this is very odd is because we

know that there are emergency procedures

on the Boeing 787 that say if you have a

dual engine failure, you're going to

perform emergency procedures that are

actually quite different from that of

like a 737

or a Phenom 300 like the aircraft that I

fly. This is a very unique set of

instructions, but is very specific. In

the event of a dual engine failure,

you're going to move both fuel control

switches to cut off and then run. You

generally do this within about a one

second delay. So you'd go off, on, off,

on on, then push and hold the ram air

turbine. This is a normal procedure. But

what this preliminary report never told

us was why did it take 10 seconds for

these switches to go from cut off to run

again? Well, probably because something

happened in that cockpit and they don't

want us to know exactly what's going on.

And this is very frustrating to me as a

pilot. Now, I'll show you a video in

just a moment, but what I want to do

first is continue some of this new

information in this breaking Wall Street

Journal piece out just minutes ago. The

first officer was the one who was flying

the Boeing and the more experienced

captain moved the switches to the cutoff

position. The first officer expressed

surprised and then surprised and then

panicked while the captain denied and

seemed to remain calm. This is really

interesting because there's no

indication as to why this would have

been done. The captain or the pilot

flying would have had his hands

basically full flying the aircraft. And

I've mentioned this on this channel

before. You can look it up if you look

up meet Kevin terrorism Air India 171. I

hate to say it, but what I talked about

was how very easy it would be for the

pilot not flying to pull back on these

levers while the pilot flying took off

and rotated the aircraft. It is

extremely common for the pilot that is

not flying to have frankly much less to

do than the pilot flying. And I say this

as a single rated pilot. So when I fly,

I generally take responsibility for the

vast majority of the actions that take

place, even when I'm flying in a

two-pilot situation, so I can practice

training for single pilot operations.

And so I want you to see on a takeoff

how busy my hands are here. And then

we're going to talk about how the Wall

Street Journal suggests criminal

authorities in the United States might

be getting involved as they would if

this incident happened on US so soil.

And this is a huge embarrassment to

frankly aviation in India. But listen to

this takeoff from

>> heading degrees

>> and that guy whose landing's not close

yet. So we're good.

>> Yep. No factor.

>> So I had an outside POV of this takeoff

as well.

>> All right. Five to go.

>> What I want you to see is my hands. We

set the throttle. Once we get to V1,

you'll see my hand move to the yolk.

Both hands are on the yolk, which opens

up plenty of room. if you had somebody

who was just having a very bad day to

switch the fuel switches or in our case

the ignition switches right here.

You see there's little to do for the

other pilot

>> rotate.

>> See, look at that.

>> I'm doing our gear.

>> In this case, we're going for flaps.

We're going for gear and flaps early.

>> I trained that plane.

>> All me right now.

The point is I'm looking out of the

cockpit. I'm looking out at my

instruments. I'm dealing with the gear.

I'm dealing with the flaps in this case.

Now, typically in a Boeing aircraft, uh

the other pilot would have dealt with

the gear and the flaps, but they would

have had plenty of room to hit these

switches as well. My eyes are not on

those. I'm pulling the power back right

here because we remove we get out of the

toga setting and we get into more of a

climb setting for thrust. This is very

normal so we don't overheat our engines.

These are all very typical procedures.

But the reason I'm showing you this is

I'm flying this aircraft. I'm also

communicating like a radio with tower

and switching over to our own

frequencies.

>> I'm doing this again as a single rated

pilot where I take these responsibility.

But you'll see throughout all of these

procedures, the other pilot is in a

position where you could have all of the

opportunities at your heart's desire to

get to those fuel switches and

intentionally move those fuel switches

to the off or cut off position. Now, Air

India just this morning also reported

that the fuel cutff switches on all of

the other Boeing aircraft for Air India

have been inspected. And despite that

safety bulletin from 2018 suggesting

that there could be faulty switches with

the uh you know Boeing cutff switches,

Air India found no problems at any of

the other aircraft and that's because

the aviation authorities gave Boeing uh

well Air India in this case just one

week to inspect all of them. They got it

done within two or three days. Not a

single issue at any of the other

aircraft. At least that's what we're

being told. But here you can see the FBI

is suggesting or rather the Wall Street

Journal is suggesting that US officials

uh and criminal authorities have been

briefed and should review the matter.

The Air India authorities preliminary

report didn't reach any conclusions

about what led to the crash or while why

the fuel switches were cut off. It

almost seems like they want this out of

our memory and they want to release this

information later. It's very disturbing

because at this point it's very clear

this was a case of a 56-year-old

soft-spoken man caring for his ailing

father who used to work for India's

civil a civil aviation ministry himself

who decided it was time to check out and

unfortunately he decided to take almost

300 people with him. We'll never know

what happened with this individual's

mental health, but apparently he was

known as somebody who was polite,

soft-spoken, never cursed, never drank

alcohol, and somebody who had a love for

flying, and explained concepts better

than even some instructors. Here's a

photo of that pilot. And all of a

sudden, something flipped.

And yes, it was the fuel cut off switch.

Okay. All right. Sorry.

Look, this sucks, okay? We we need to

figure out and how to get to the bot. We

need to figure out why. Why can this

happen? I don't know if this is just the

human nature of what can unfortunately

happen to people, but this is and this

has happened in history before where you

essentially have suicide murders and

it's terrible,

but this is scary. And together as an

aviation community, we have to look and

realize this was more of a mental health

problem. Then ultimately it was a

mechanical problem. And so yeah, I

understand why people are calling for

cockpits and in in uh uh you know,

aircraft cockpit cameras. I understand

why people are calling for more mental

health screening because frankly here

was a pilot with 15,000

hours over 8600 hours in the Boeing 787

in type

and this is how they decided to check

out. This is really devastating. Maybe

we do need to step up our metal medical

screening for pilots.

This is devastating. Breaking news.

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>> Congratulations, man. You have done so

much. People love you. People look up to

you.

>> Kevin Praath there, financial analyst

and YouTuber. Meet Kevin. Always great

to get your take.