Ahmedabad Plane Crash: “Probably both engines lost power…” Former IAF Chief

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Kolkata (West Bengal), June 14, 2025 (ANI): Listing out probable cause, IAF veteran, Air Chief Marshal (RETD) Arup Raha said that engine failure at a critical stage of flight could be the reason. While talking to ANI, former IAF Chief said, “Looking at the aircraft conditions, the way aircraft has called and sank into the ground, it appears at a very critical stage of flight, transition from ground to air, there has been loss of engine power. Probably both engines have lost power...And it happened at a very critical stage. As a result, it crashed. The second thing (probability) is fuel contamination, which has occurred in the past as well..."

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00:00Looking at the flight conditions, the way aircraft has stalled and sank into the ground,

00:06it appears at the very critical stage of flight, transition from ground to air, there has been

00:12loss of engine power.

00:14Probably both the engines have lost power.

00:18That loss of power could be because of electronic glitches, control systems of the engines which

00:23are electronic, and there has been loss of power, which normally doesn't happen, maybe

00:27one in million cases, and it has happened at a very critical stage.

00:31Suppose it has happened at 10,000, 20,000 feet, there will be no problem.

00:34As a result, it crashed.

00:38So that is one reason there could be.

00:42Second is contamination of fuel, which has happened in the past as well.

00:46So in that case, they will check out the bouses from which they loaded the fuel into the aircraft

00:54tanks, and they will know.

00:57So solutions are there, and they have the FDR, or what you call the black box, that is

01:03a flight data recorder, records each and every parameter of the flight, engine parameters,

01:08airframe parameters, g-forces, control inputs, and so many other things.

01:13And that has been recovered, they will access the information, interpret it, and then they'll

01:17analyze the specialist and they'll see what went wrong.

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