Dreamliner Crash

[Pooter]

49 minutes ago, FUSEPLUG said:

What is the take from the AA bros on this Captain SteEveVe guy?  He's taking some internets hate for his constant YouTube commentary on this Air India crash.  

Just retire already.

Not an AA guy but its interesting that his first flying-related video was only posted 9 months ago according to his youtube channel. Since then he's posted dozens and dozens of them and the India crash videos went particularly viral with views in the millions. Don't know his age but from the looks of it he is nearing mandatory retirement and is attempting a career pivot to old man internet aviation influencer/guru.

[FUSEPLUG]

3 minutes ago, Pooter said:

Don't know his age but from the looks of it he is nearing mandatory retirement and is attempting a career pivot to old man internet aviation influencer/guru.

That seems to be the consensus.  Annoying if he's wearing company gear and talking about non-company stuff.  SWA has its influencers, but they seem to keep it in their lane.

[Pooter]

4 minutes ago, FUSEPLUG said:

That seems to be the consensus.  Annoying if he's wearing company gear and talking about non-company stuff.  SWA has its influencers, but they seem to keep it in their lane.

Possible stupid question, but is he wearing anything company-specific in those videos? Looked to me just like a generic captain outfit with white shirt, epaulettes, tie, and a fly safe lanyard, but I'm not smart on the details. And I would think AA would come down pretty hard on anyone wearing company-specific stuff postulating about random incidents, no?

[TreeA10]

Haven't watched Capt Steve.

[FUSEPLUG]

22 minutes ago, Pooter said:

Possible stupid question, but is he wearing anything company-specific in those videos? Looked to me just like a generic captain outfit with white shirt, epaulettes, tie, and a fly safe lanyard, but I'm not smart on the details. And I would think AA would come down pretty hard on anyone wearing company-specific stuff postulating about random incidents, no?

My bad if that isn't AA specific. You all look the same if you're wearing a striped tie and taxiing at 8 knots.  (I kid, I kid)

[Smokin]

4 hours ago, uhhello said:

Is he they guy in the pilot uniform doing videos?  If so, I don't watch just for that fact alone.

100%.  A blatant and unconvincing appeal to authority when I don't really trust anything that some random captain has to say, let alone some dude on youtube that has poor enough sense to do the video in uniform.  Far too many "experts" have never experienced a significant emergency themselves but are all to happy to leap to conclusions about an incident with a significant amount of assumptions that often turn out to be incorrect.  For example, there was the United plane that went off the end at Jackson Hole.  Many pilots that should know better immediately and with zero evidence publicly said that the pilots landed long and fast in bad weather.  Turns out the brakes weren't wired correctly and gave good enough braking that crews didn't notice for a couple landings in nice weather, but as soon as they asked for max performance for a short runway in the snow, the brakes gave something like 50% of what they should have.

[waveshaper]

On 7/14/2025 at 10:27 AM, Lord Ratner said:

Absolutely. I didn't see in the initial reports who was asking the question and who was denying touching the switches, I just assumed it was the fo denying it.

 

But if it was the other way around, I have no difficulty imagining your scenario. Like I said, High context societies... It was always 99% that this was going to be pilot error

Some updated info on who (most likely) turned off the engines fuel switches:

An initial analysis of the cockpit voice recorder recovered from the Air India flight that crashed last month reveals that the younger co-pilot asked the captain why he had turned off the plane’s fuel-supply switches, according to a US media report.

First officer Clive Kunder had the controls of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner for take-off and at the time of the crash moments later outside Ahmedabad airport, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal citing sources in the investigation, and it was he who asked flight captain Sumeet Sabharwal why he had flipped the switches, starving the engines of fuel.

It represents a potentially important new detail, emerging several days after a preliminary official report in the crash revealed only that the brief interaction had taken place, without naming who said what or quoting them directly.

- Etc,etc:

Air India cockpit audio reportedly shows first officer confronting captain over fuel switches

Edited 4 hours ago by waveshaper