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    Facebook and other social media platforms are all abuzz with theories   
   contradicting the investigation and preliminary report of the Air India B787   
   crash.  What is all your take on it?   
      
     Indian nationals and conpiracy buffs are pretty much driving their belief   
   that either "Our pilots can not be that stupid.", or "An Indian would not kill   
   himself and almost everyone on that plane in a murder suicide incident."   
      
   So top down.   
      
   The fuel switches can NOT be moved automatically.  They must be manually   
   actuated, and in order to do that, they must be pulled OUT, then moved DOWN.   
   The AIB that was issued for defective or inactivated springs SHOULD have been   
   corrected in either the aircrafts next C or D check.  Failing to address this   
   would be on the Airlines MX department.   
      
     Well, besides the usual spewing of "Engineers, Doctors, or Lawyers"   
   overnight on Facebook.  This has mainly been driven either by the "Bash   
   Boeing" crowd or Indian Nationalism.  I would jump on the "Too much   
   nationalism is a bad thing.", but that would make me as an American an   
   hypocrite right now.. So lets just move right along.   
      
     Indian nationals are pretty much driving their belief that either "Our   
   pilots can not be that stupid.", or "An Indian would not kill himself and   
   almost everyone on that plane in a murder suicide incident."   
      
   So top down.   
      
   The fuel switches can NOT be moved automatically.  They must be manually   
   actuated, and in order to do that, they must be pulled OUT, then moved DOWN.   
   The AIB that was issued for defective or inactivated springs SHOULD have been   
   corrected in either the aircrafts next C or D check.  Failing to address this   
   would be on the Airlines MX department.here COULD have been a logic fault in   
   either of the Electronic Engine Controllers (EEC), or FADECs, or FUEL SYSTEM   
   MANAGEMENT CARDS (FSMCs), that might have triggered a logical shutdown   
   command, but the systems are REDUNDANT, Multiple engines, multiple cards,   
   multiple computers.  The chances of both systems failing and causing a fuel   
   system cutoff to both engines 1 sec. apart is so small as to be nonexistent.   
      
   The smoking gun that this was done by one of the pilots (And they should   
   release the CVR audio).  Those switches make a distinct sound, that should   
   have been picked up by one of the Cockpit Area Mic's "CAM"s.  Which should   
   correlate to the recording of the Fuel Switches being moved from RUN to CUTOFF   
   one after the other.   
      
   WORDS ARE IMPORTANT -   
   The Captain (Pilot Monitoring on this flight), stated to the First Officer   
   (Pilot Flying this flight).  "You cutoff.."  Which the FO replied, "Didn't"   
   Most monitoring pilots in this situation would first be confused as to why the   
   engines are rolling back, and start interrogating the EICAS, or engine   
   instruments looking for the cause.  He didn't, he know EXACTLY what had just   
   happened!  Either himself (To cover his actions), or the First Officer reached   
   down and moved the Fuel Switches from RUN to CUTOFF.   
      
   The people who are screaming BOEING coverup, or You are just blaming the   
   pilots because they are dead, have NO IDEA how an investigation of an incident   
   with a complex system work, and are biasing feelings over facts.   
      
   That is my 2 cent analysis.   
      
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