Pilots' body questions Air India flight 171 report, seeks simulator tests

Pilots' body flags timeline and RAT deployment in Air India flight 171 preliminary crash report.

Verified Facts

• The pilots' body wrote to the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) regarding the preliminary crash report of Air India flight 171.
• The pilots' body suggested that the RAT deployment in Air India flight 171 could have resulted from an electrical fault.
• The pilots' body asked the AAIB to carry out simulator tests to verify aspects of the AI171 plane crash probe.