What India’s Air India Crash Reveals About Aviation Safety and Black Box Failures

Last month’s tragic Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crash near Ahmedabad, India, which claimed at least 260 lives including innocent people on the ground, has once again drawn attention to aviation safety protocols and the vital role of aircraft black boxes. The preliminary findings released by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau reveal a startling cause: pilots apparently turned off the fuel control switches, starving the engines shortly after takeoff—an error caught only by the plane's black box recordings.How Secure Are Our Skies When Pilot Errors Can Be This Catastrophic?The cockpit voice recorder captured a tense moment between pilots—one questioning why...