A former Inspector General of the US Department of Transportation has posited a new theory on the cause of the tragic crash of Air India Flight 171 earlier this month that killed 271 people.
Mary Schiavo, a transportation expert and lead attorney in the aviation department at law firm Motley Rice, suggested that a computer error could have caused the Boeing 787 Dreamliner's engines to throttle back.
This would account for the loss of thrust shortly after takeoff, she said - a phenomenon that has happened before.
'I believe this crash was a computer problem. There are several 787 components that rely on computer code to tell the plane whether it is in the air or on the ground.
'If the computer or code malfunctions, the engines spool back and the thrust is reduced, even if in flight,' Schiavo, who has represented victims of several air disasters in the US, told The Mirror.
