{"id":359815,"date":"2026-02-01T05:15:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/deliberate-action-air-india-171-probe-zeroing-in-pilot\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:15:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:15:36","slug":"deliberate-action-why-the-air-india-171-probe-is-zeroing-in-on-the-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=359815","title":{"rendered":"Deliberate Action: Why The Air India 171 Probe Is Zeroing In On The Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"264468\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rantdb.com\/db\/tv-show\/air-crash-investigation-2003\/\"  >air crash investigation<\/a><\/span> into the deadly <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3501133\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-india-flight-171\/\"  >Air India Flight 171<\/a><\/span> continues to probe the pilot&#8217;s behavior as the probable cause of the crash, with investigations having ruled out mechanical failure and not found any evidence of sabotage, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-01-30\/air-india-crash-probe-leans-toward-deliberate-pilot-action\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >according to Bloomberg<\/a>. This leaves the pilot action as the highest probabiility nboting that the final report of the crash is expected to be released by June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seconds to Disaster: Unraveling the Final Moments of Air India 171<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15100,548,17055,396,7698,553,16569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ahmedabad","category-air-india","category-air-india-flight-171","category-aircraft","category-crash-investigation","category-india","category-manufacturers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359818,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359815\/revisions\/359818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}