FIP said it conducted a simulator test proved that a manual fuel cutoff takes 18 seconds to drop turbine, hence the timeline alleged in the 'suicide theory' is impossible.

Did India's deadliest air disaster in decades begin with a mechanical failure, seconds before the fuel switches cutoff? A deep-dive into the central unresolved question of the Air India flight 171 ...

It was a hot and dry afternoon on 12 June last year, when Air India Flight 171 left the terminal at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Airport in Ahmedabad in the western Indian state of Gujarat. Settling into ...