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Asking because of Air India 171. Pilots and their unions are objecting to it because of "privacy" reasons. What do you think about it?

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Wouldn't the state of the switches be logged on the flight recorder?

[–] NaibofTabr 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes, but it might be very important to determine: did the pilot/copilot flick the switch, or did the switch change state without user input?

Is the crew at fault (training issue/operator error) or is the manufacturer at fault (design flaw) or was the ground crew at fault (improper maintenance)?

A camera could help determine that, if it had the right field of view.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Mechanical switches aren't flipping themselves 4 seconds apart

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 days ago

No, but a short circuit might

[–] TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today 7 points 4 days ago

it is, mentour pilot released a video about the preliminary report the other day where it's mentioned that the fuel pumps were set back to active with a 4 second delay between flipping each switch.

this link should be set to the time stamp where he goes over what happened with the switches: https://youtu.be/lVS76zcpZok?t=1102