Air India in Crisis AI315 *Emergency* & AI171 Crash

story now circulating about an Air India

Boeing, the same type of Boeing that

just crashed uh in India, but uh a

different aircraft here being forced to

turn back with midair technical issue

just days after crash kills 270. I

remember there was a sole survivor on

that aircraft. Boeing now indicating

that they're supporting investigations

into both matters. Uh and uh that uh the

Air India an Air India spokesperson says

one of our flights returned from to

Delhi after takeoff due to a suspected

technical issue. An Air India flight was

forced to make a U-turn due to a

technical scare after takeoff on Monday.

Uh, Air India flight 315

took off from Hong Kong uh at uh 12:20

p.m. local town uh time bound for New

Delhi when the aircraft began an

unexpected descent shortly after

takeoff. Oh, that sounds eerily similar.

Okay, so it sounds like back to Hong

Kong then. The 70-year-old Boeing 7878

Dreamlininer, that's the same model of

the total loss that we just had, which

was the first total loss completely,

had only reached 22,000 ft before it

unexpectedly started descending. That's

crazy. Okay, so this is interesting. So,

as as I always like to say, get my

little model over here. Unfortunately, I

have to keep bringing it up. As a jet

pilot, uh usually at about 18,000 ft, we

go through a checklist uh known as our

transition, uh we transition to standard

barometers. We uh also we want to pay

special attention to our pressurization,

especially after about 12,500 because,

you know, now now we're really getting

into lower oxygen environments. We want

to make sure our oxygen masks are ready

in the event of some form of a cabin uh

decompression, you know, rapid

decompression. uh and um uh you know we

generally turn our windshield heaters on

because we're getting into substantially

colder environments. So at 22,000 ft

there should not be a sudden unexplained

descent. Uh like much like what we saw

with the uh Air India 171 flight where

we had a loss of thrust after takeoff

likely because of a dual engine failure.

You know what led to that cascade of

issues is debatable. You know, I believe

that vapor lock could have been one of

the contributing factors here, but mind

you, you know, it we haven't really

heard of vapor lock causing an aircraft

like a Boeing to crash before because

usually your fuel pumps provide enough

positive pressure to prevent vapor lock.

This is generally not an issue. So, you

would really have to have some form of

catastrophic failure where there's

potentially this uh heat soaked fuel

line that leads to a temporary loss of

power. or maybe that banging we hear

because of a compressor stall in the

engines leading then the electrical

system to come under strain, the fuel

pumps and the hydraulics to fail at the

same time. There's clearly a cascade of

issues that happened with the Air India

171 flight. But I'll tell you to all of

a sudden at 22,000 ft start experiencing

a quote unexpected descent is very very

bizarre. This is uh is something that

typically you wouldn't see happen uh

because by now our engines have already

been producing relatively constant

thrust. We we are climbing at a

consistent climb rate. Uh certainly a

consistent power setting for the engines

and then as we get higher that climb

rate will slow because the air is

getting thinner as we're going up. But

apparently this prompted the pilot to

turn back towards Hong Kong. uh and it

really does also raise the question of

what is the maintenance uh you know the

maintenance programs that Air India is

is actually completing for some of these

aircraft. There's apparently aircraft

audio here uh because you know I really

have cascading failures of these

aircraft. It's there's never one factor

that causes a plane to crash. Almost

never. You know people that were leaving

comments on my vapor lock comment

yesterday saying oh my gosh I've never

heard of vapor lock causing a crash. Of

course, because you you have to have a

cascade of problems that have to align

that could be caused by let's say vapor

lock leading again to the catastrophic

failure of other systems. So, usually

you have multiple issues in a row,

maintenance issues leading to a heat

soaked situation where the air

conditioning isn't running. People are

leaving comments like, "Oh, but you

know, I take off out of the Middle East

and it's 117°." Sure. Was the AC running

though? How was the maintenance of the

hydraulic pumps and the fuel pumps? Was

that AC cooling down those fuel lines

between the actual aircraft? You know,

some people say, "Oh, well, Kevin, you

know, fuel is stored in the tanks."

Yeah, but it gets recirculated, right?

Unburned fuel gets recirculated back

into the wings, which raises the

temperature of fuel in the wings. The

fuel lines that run through the

internals of the actual aircraft are

also uh you know, a factor. But here's

apparently uh audio ATC audio don't want

to continue flight. Let's listen to this

to see what these pilots were saying.

But this uh just days after the deadly

crash here, this is uh this is quite

strange here. Let's listen in.

Say again. With technical reasons, sir,

we like to stay closer to Hong Kong. Uh

maybe we will uh come back and land back

into Hong Kong once we sort out the

problem. We don't want to continue

further.

Maintain question level. Adise when able

for right turn to Hong Kong. able right

now and 315

don't want to continue the flight until

they figure out the problem as the

aircraft potentially uh starts losing

its ability to climb at 22,000. Now keep

in mind you also generally don't want to

commute uh from Hong Kong to New Delhi

uh at 22,000 ft. It's very inefficient.

You really want altitude as your friend.

You get more of glide distance,

significantly more fuel efficient. you

get there a lot faster. Usually you're

typically dealing with um I mean not

just economics here but but also safety

opportunities unless of course you have

a rapid decompression then you want to

be lower. Flight return to Hong Kong

because of a technical issue without

giving further details. The plane landed

safely at 1:15 p.m. and is undergoing

checks as a matter of precaution. The

airline said this comes just after the

scare of Air India Flight 171. Also a

Boeing Dreamliner crashing only 30

seconds after takeoff heading to London

Gatwick on Thursday. Uh 12-year-old

plane had reached a height of 650. It

was like 635. That was the uh the prior

crash here. But uh here yet another

diversion after getting an unexpected

descent at 22,000 ft. Very strange. The

flight lasted 3 hours and 21 minutes. It

landed safely. This is usually a 5 hour

and 50inute flight.

Uh the average flight time here at least

according to flight radar indicating

five just over five hours uh though

airlines seem to quote five hours 50

probably because of uh boarding

deboarding since times tend to start

from when they close the boarding door

to when they open them uh in terms of

end but uh here's the diversion of Air

India flight 315. Unclear exactly what

caused this yet. usually to to start

losing thrust at 22,000 ft. Unless

you're getting going through some kind

of volcanic ash or some kind of

contamination of the engine, you're not

really looking at birds at this

altitude. uh you'd really have to once

again be wondering if there's some kind

of uh fuel related issue or some form of

engine maintenance related issue that

seems to be now a common thread

potentially between Air India 171 and

315 since obviously at least the current

consensus is Air India 171 had a dual

engine failure immediately after takeoff

and maybe here uh you started noticing

some engine problems halfway through

your climb, which is quite unusual. But

this certainly raises the question, is

this a Trump 7 or sorry, is this a

Boeing 7878 Dreamliner issue? Is this an

Air India maintenance issue? What's

going on here? Obviously, we'll have to

see what investigations reveal, but uh

certainly a scary and bizarre time for

Air India and Boeing. Why not advertise

these things that you told us here? I

feel like nobody else knows about this.

We'll we'll try a little advertising and

see how it goes. Congratulations, man.

You have done so much. People love you.

People look up to you. Kevin Pra there,

financial analyst and YouTuber. Meet

Kevin. Always great to get your take.