Ahmedabad, June 20:
The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) has challenged the official narrative related to the tragic crash of Air India Flight AI 171, just seconds after take-off from Ahmedabad airport on June 12, 2025, claiming that new simulator data points to a massive systemic electrical failure that caused the Boeing plane crash rather than pilot suicide.
Addressing a press conference, FIP President Captain C.S. Randhawa claimed that investigators ignored crucial technical evidence and intentionally sidelined India’s foremost aviation experts to protect a predetermined conclusion. The official interim report into the disaster claimed that the flight crew deliberately cut off fuel supplies to the engines in a coordinated suicide pact.
According to government investigators, the manual shutdown caused the aircraft’s ram air turbine — a backup power system that deploys automatically during total power loss — to drop just four seconds later. However, Randhawa said that the FIP recently conducted exhaustive simulator tests replicating the exact weight, balance and weather conditions of the flight in question.