Six months after the crash of Air India’s AI-171 Ahmedabad-Gatwick flight on June 12, the authorities investigating the incident are analysing a series of technical snags that led to a possible electric malfunction on the ill-fated aircraft. Minister of State for Civil Aviation Murlidhar Mohol told Rajya Sabha recently that all probable causes leading to the accident are being investigated.

Even as the purported 23-second interaction between Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, the Pilot-in-Command with First Officer Clive Kunder, following the reported “fuel switch transition to cut off mode” has become the centre of speculations and debates, the agencies probing the crash, are yet to find “incriminating evidence” to conclude that the crash occurred as a result of “pilot error” or deliberate action

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