“Current Media Studies Are Untimely, Speculative”: US Transport Security Physique On Air India Crash

The US Nationwide Transportation Security Board (NTSB) chairperson Jennifer Homendy has stated that it’s untimely to attract any conclusions concerning the investigation into the deadly crash of Air India Flight 171 on June 12.

Her remarks are available response to media reviews suggesting a senior pilot might have lower off the gasoline switches to each engines.

“Current media reviews on the Air India 171 crash are untimely and speculative. India’s Plane Accident Investigation Bureau simply launched its preliminary report. Investigations of this magnitude take time. We absolutely help the AAIB’s public attraction, which was launched Thursday, and can proceed to help its ongoing investigation. All investigative questions needs to be addressed to the AAIB,” NTSB shared Homendy’s assertion on X.

Assertion from NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy:

“Current media reviews on the Air India 171 crash are untimely and speculative. India’s Plane Accident Investigation Bureau simply launched its preliminary report. Investigations of this magnitude take time. We absolutely help the…
— NTSB Newsroom (@NTSB_Newsroom) July 18, 2025

The investigation into the crash of the London-bound Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner plane, which crashed shortly after take-off from Ahmedabad in Gujarat on June 12, killing 260 folks, is being performed by India’s Plane Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) with help from the US Nationwide Transportation Security Board (NTSB).

A preliminary report from the AAIB revealed that simply seconds after takeoff, each engine fuel-control switches inexplicably moved from the ‘run’ to the ‘cutoff’ place, shutting down the engines virtually concurrently and inflicting an irreparable lack of energy. A cockpit voice recording reveals one pilot asking the opposite why they “lower off” the switches, to which the opposite pilot denied having accomplished so.

Earlier on Thursday, the AAIB cautioned in opposition to drawing untimely conclusions or spreading unverified info, significantly by sections of the worldwide media, warning that such actions risked undermining the integrity of the investigation.

“It has come to our consideration that sure sections of the worldwide media are repeatedly making an attempt to attract conclusions by means of selective and unverified reporting. Such actions are irresponsible, particularly whereas the investigation stays ongoing. We urge each the general public and the media to chorus from spreading untimely narratives that threat undermining the integrity of the investigative course of,” AAIB stated in a press release. 

This attraction got here amid heightened world scrutiny after reviews—together with one from the Wall Road Journal—claimed that cockpit voice recordings counsel the captain might have turned off the gasoline management switches, resulting in confusion within the cockpit.

AAIB has additionally appealed to all involved to await the publication of the Remaining Investigation Report after completion of the Investigation. AAIB may also publish updates as and when required, which have technical and public curiosity. 

(With ANI Inputs)