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Re:Preliminary report into Air India crash released by deadbabe on Friday July 11, 2025 @10:02PM (#44538677)
there's literally two other similar switches right next to those?
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Re:Preliminary report into Air India crash released by resist_futility on Friday July 11, 2025 @10:09PM (#44538702)
The switches on the lower panel that are switched, are the fuel cutoffs
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Re:Preliminary report into Air India crash released by anonzzzies on Saturday July 12, 2025 @01:44AM (#44539621)
But they don't look protected or hard to switch?
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Re:Preliminary report into Air India crash released by ojosilva on Saturday July 12, 2025 @04:30AM (#44540324)
No they don't, do they. That also corroborates the fact that they could be both switched to CUTOFF within a second, like the report states. That impossibility was raised by parallel threads here. In the video they are both switched on even faster than 1 sec apart, or, at least it feels like it.
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Re:Preliminary report into Air India crash released by vishnugupta on Saturday July 12, 2025 @04:31AM (#44540327)
The pilot is toggling the switch on.

Toggling it off presumably requires more power and is multiple actions.

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Re:Preliminary report into Air India crash released by shash on Saturday July 12, 2025 @08:36AM (#44541626)
You move those switches down apparently. I don't think so.
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Re:Preliminary report into Air India crash released by vishnugupta on Saturday July 12, 2025 @10:33AM (#44542353)
Up/Forward ==> Run ==> Fuel supply is on

Down/Backwards ==> Cutoff ==> Fuel supply is off

https://www.reddit.com/r/indianaviation/comments/1lxxatc/fue...

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Re:Preliminary report into Air India crash released by shash on Saturday July 12, 2025 @11:59AM (#44542962)
I mean, there doesn’t seem to be a different amount of force necessary.
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Re:Preliminary report into Air India crash released by testrun on Saturday July 12, 2025 @05:02AM (#44540496)
They are hard to switch. You need to lift them to switch.
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