Aerospace engineer Sergio Hidalgo explains the Air India plane crash: "It was strange, you can clearly see how it wanted to ascend."
The crash of Air India flight AI171, en route from Ahmedabad to London, has shocked the world after crashing just five minutes after takeoff.
Amid initial speculation, aerospace engineer Sergio Hidalgo has offered an analysis via social media of what has been seen in the images of the accident.
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"A Boeing 787 crashed moments after leaving the ground during takeoff. We still don't know what happened, but it was somewhat strange. First, the plane was descending with the landing gear down," he explained.
There were 242 people on board, and against all odds, at least one of them survived, contradicting the initial official reports that spoke of all fatalities.
The sole survivor, a British citizen, reported hearing a loud noise just before the crash. Authorities continue search and rescue efforts at the scene.
According to Sergio, this anomaly contradicts standard procedures: “When a plane takes off and the pilots confirm it's climbing, the first thing they do is raise the landing gear.”
The engineer also emphasized that the plane's attitude indicated it was trying to gain altitude. "Given the plane's attitude, it's clearly trying to climb. At the last moment, you can see how the angle of attack increased even further, yet it continued to descend, which indicates that it was clearly underspeed," he explained.
An Air India flight to London with 242 people on board, including two pilots and 10 cabin crew members, crashed Thursday shortly after takeoff from an airport in the western Indian state of Gujarat, officials said. Senior police officer confirms at least 110 dead in the crash, according to local media reports.
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UNI / Xinhua News / ContactoPhoto / Europa PressThis behavior evokes a loss of lift that could have led to the crash. According to the specialist, he also refuted the theory that the plane didn't have flaps deployed, asserting that this scenario wouldn't explain why the aircraft managed to briefly rise before crashing.
"As always in aviation, we'll have to wait several months or even years to fully understand what happened here," Sergio concluded in his post.
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