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A shocking new discovery pulls back the curtain on what may have happened in the moments leading up to the Air India plane crash last month -- with a report finding the fuel to the doomed plane's engines was likely cut just after taking flight.

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00:00It looks like this horrific Air India crash a few weeks ago was an intentional act by

00:08the pilot.

00:11Everything is leading to that.

00:12You know that the preliminary report showed that both engines of this 787, which is the

00:21most recent, most technologically sophisticated Boeing aircraft never crashed before.

00:31That it got 650 feet in the air, the engines stop and the plane falls and it crashes into

00:38a building.

00:39What they've now discovered is from the cockpit recorder that there was a conversation between

00:46the pilot and the co-pilot.

00:47The co-pilot said, why did you cut off the fuel?

00:52All of the fuel lines were cut off moments after takeoff.

00:58Not moments.

00:59The plane was only in the air a minute.

01:01So it was at 650 feet at its height.

01:04Almost immediately after takeoff, the pilot, it turns out, is the one who shut down the

01:10engines.

01:11The co-pilot says, did you shut off the engines?

01:14And he's panicked and the pilot very calmly says no.

01:19Now here's the evidence.

01:21That now it's coming out from people who were around this pilot, who by the way, had 15,000

01:27hours in the air.

01:28So he was an experienced pilot.

01:30That he had taken a medical leave for mental health issues, suffered from depression.

01:36And those are real warning signs.

01:39The way to shut off an engine, it couldn't be accidental, the way this works.

01:42It's literally made so that everything can be, there's so many guards up so that it can't

01:49be switched off accidentally.

01:50So there's the center console and then there's each engine levers and a switch, right?

01:56And what you have to do is first make sure that the lever, the thrust lever is put on

02:01idle and then on the actual switch, there's actually like a stop lock mechanism.

02:06So like a, you know, like a pill bottle or something, I have to push and twist.

02:10It's, you have to lift and twist to put it on.

02:13And you have to do it for each engine.

02:15For each engine.

02:16So each engine requires these multiple acts of moving things around.

02:20The co-pilot was actually took off.

02:22He's the one that took off.

02:23And so the pilot was, had time to do whatever he was going to do.

02:27The co-pilot's concentrating on flying the airplane and all of a sudden he realizes something's

02:32wrong and he said, did you shut this off?

02:34He had to lift that, that, that, that little lever and then, um, twist, lift and twist.

02:40And lift and twist and then lift and twist again.

02:42We just released a poll actually.

02:44We let our audience vote on what they think.

02:47Did the Air Indian pilot intentionally cause a crash?

02:50Yes.

02:51Who do you think, what do you think won yesterday?

02:53I had to say yes with all the evidence.

02:5578% said yes.

02:56Yeah.

02:57It's a, there's very little question.

02:59No mechanical problem.

03:01And there's no argument from, I mean, the, the, the pilot just very calmly, the way the

03:06pilot says.

03:07He denies it.

03:07No, I did not.

03:08But there's no effort from the pilot to try and turn this around.

03:13Exactly.

03:13The pilot's just sort of, there's no way you can do that accidentally.

03:16Exactly.

03:17And it was definitely turned off, definitely turned back on, couldn't have been done accidentally.

03:21And when you listen to the voice recorder, it's the co-pilot who's panicked.

03:25And the pilot is just calm about the whole thing.

03:28Yeah.

03:28And now this whole thing is coming out about depression.

03:31Well, T-Baby, a commenter of ours, T-Baby is saying they need to do mental health checks,

03:35but more often.

03:35They do.

03:35Often.

03:36And maybe they need to do them more often.

03:37But they do actually do those mental health checks.

03:39And, and when this happens, they always find their mental health issues, obviously, with

03:44the, I mean, 241 people here died.

03:46That's, yeah.

03:47One miraculously.

03:48And in my lifetime, I don't remember anything that was more of a miracle than this.

03:54Yeah.

03:55Yeah.

03:56Yeah.

03:57Yeah.

03:58Yeah.

03:59Yeah.

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