Opinion: Why Wording Is Important In An Air Crash Report

An Air India Boeing 787 taxiing on a runway at Sydney Airport.

An Air India Boeing 787 taxiing on a runway at Sydney Airport.

Credit: Rob Finlayson
The interim report on the June 12 Air India flight AI171 crash was expected to clarify the sequence of events that led to a dual engine shutdown of the Boeing 787 during takeoff. Instead, it introduces a deeper uncertainty—one that lies not in the data, but in the language used to describe it. Among...

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