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The Wall Street Journal that US officials believe it was the senior pilot, Sumeet Sabharwal, who turned the switches from run to cut-off. Key excerpt from the article:
Reuters is also running with a less informative version of this story.
In relation to the credibility of these anonymous officials and their assessments: a few days prior to the release of the AIIB preliminary report, mainstream media sources such as Reuters reported that the operation of the engine fuel cut-off switches was a key focus of the investigation. The preliminary report subsequently validated that assertion. On the other hand, it's not entirely clear to me just why U.S. officials would be given access to the Cockpit Voice Recorder output in sufficient detail (i.e. including the emotional presentation of each pilot in the critical seconds after take-off) to make the assertions that they have, particularly in light of other suggestions (as discussed in the video linked in my previous post) that AIIB has held foreign parties somewhat at arms-length from the investigation.
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