Operation Coverup? | One Week After Air India 171 Crash - No Answers, No Death Toll | Akash Banerjee

0:00 It's been a week since Air India Flight 171 crashed It seems like the operation cover-up has begun. The way the government and the way Air India are behaving, it seems like it's not necessary to tell the truth It's not considered necessary to give details... this is a quick live episode on Deshbhakt because we have new information that many people had doubts about. The damaged cabin and entertainment of Air India. The engine and maintenance could be a problem. That evidence is coming Reuters has released exclusive report after one week and proved one thing

0:55 that Air India has not been careful about the maintenance. I am quoting from the report. This is not about Dreamliners. This warning came to Air India before the crash about their Airbus planes. They did not check their emergency exits

1:50 This is about last year. So, a month in one case, three months in other, and two days in third case Now, if you don't give the deployment and checks to DGCA on time, then your flight worthiness certificate is cancelled Now, the CEO of Air India told Reuters last year that like other airlines, we are also facing a shortage of international parts.

2:41 So, the refurbishment that was going to happen, the mid-life upgrade that was going to happen, that has not happened. And last year, from the government, from the agencies, from the DGCA, 23 instances happened, where the airlines were fined, all the airlines including. And out of those, 12 were Air India and Air India Express. One of them was fined for unauthorized entry into the cockpit. And the biggest fine, $127,000, was for Air India because insufficient oxygen on board was carried on the trip to San Francisco. So this exclusive report that Reuters has brought, I will give you the link below,

3:30 this proves one thing that in the matter of maintenance, not only your entertainment system and seat was torn, But what I found more problematic was that Bloomberg has given a clear comparison how Air India and government are creating a vacuum in terms of information It's been a week and we don't know the toll ... we know about the aircraft, but on the ground? I agree that you have to do DNA to identify and to give the bodies to the family.

4:17 But why didn't you release the official data ? Is it such a big rocket science? Is it such a big covert operation that you haven't released this information after a week? And this is what Bloomberg has very well documented in its report. If you take incidents recently, then how have other countries handled these things with what protocol Daily briefings are held. Meeting with families, answers to questions raised by the media. Daily. We had a press conference in a week where media was not allowed to raise questions. We have become so used to it, that we don't even have to ask questions. Govt must be doing something.

5:06 And TATA is issuing a couple of mails and a couple of recorded statements by CEO Now, United Nations International Civil Aviation Organization says that you cannot give all the details. But, and this is very well explained by Bloomberg, how the Jeju Air crash that happened in South Korea, claiming 179 lives Multiple daily updates were done, with investigative efforts and false rumors were refuted. Comprehensive report in few months. Look at what is happening here. I am coming to what is happening here. And in the US, do you remember recently when American Airlines collided with a helicopter?

6:18 Here, government did a press conference and CEO Campbell Wilson comes and gives message in robotic tone And that message is also cut, copy, paste. When in America, the boss of American Airlines Group's Robert Isom the speech he gives, you give a speech on a cut copy of that speech. So, how much honest effort you are putting in and how much you are feeling with the people, that is clearly visible But, even after all this, when the truth comes out, then you have to do something. And now Air India is saying that we will cut off 15% of our flights. Why are we cutting 15%?

7:07 Are other airlines also cutting 15% due to the Middle East conflict? But look at one more thing. Times of India has released a report today this news is surfacing that how two senior Air India flight attendants wrote a letter to Narendra Modi how they were dismissed from service because they made a mistake of raising their voice.

8:00 Why? Because when they opened the door, the malfunction happened and the emergency raft was deployed. It was not supposed to happen. The raft is deployed only when the door is in armed or automatic mode. Then the plane understands that it is an emergency. It is not in manual mode when you have disarmed it. When these two senior Air India flight attendants said that they had not done this, this raft was deployed due to malfunction they were told to change their statement or they would be fired from job How much is true? After the Reuters report, it is clear that these things were being suppressed.

8:46 And why am I saying that? Because every day, you see that a flight is returning, a malfunction is occurring and in some flight pilot is not ready to leave that is why Air India will curtail operation to 16 international routes and suspend operations to 3 cities. This will have an impact on flights to Delhi - Nairobi, Amritsar - London, Goa - London. all these will be impacted Now, the CEO and Managing Director Campbell Wilson is saying that we are doing confidence building measure.

9:41 Now the question is, why didn't you need to do this before? You could have done this 15% reduction when you bought the airline. Didn't you know that the airline is aging? Didn't you know that the engines of the airlines haven't been refurbished for so many years? Did you think about enhanced check after the crash? Did you not pay attention to safety that you should have paid while buying? Were you more worried about business loss that if you don't use all the routes optimally, you will lose? So, there was a little more hope of transparency from Tata Because now Tata is sending a letter to its Mahindra club members.

10:35 By the way, notice that the airline is talking about its own loss. Like ground loss is not their responsibility. The government is not trying to give us a clear figure of the victims on the ground. They have written that their crew is very professional, which I agree Our aircraft, the plane was well maintained But this is not the case with other aircrafts. That is why the problem with so many aircrafts

11:24 And the second dishonesty is that... So, all these problems are also for other aircraft and other airlines. So many of their flights are also getting cancelled on a daily basis? Or your pilots know something that you don't want to tell us. Your pilots knew that they were working in a jugaad and now on any suspicion they are refusing to fly?

12:12 There is a need for a little more honesty. As far as Tata and the owners are concerned. And as far as the government is concerned, we know there is no value of human life in our country. But we thought that this high-profile and the biggest single aircraft crash after Charkhi Dadri this one has most lives lost but I cannot tell exactly because Govt has not told us But it is said that about 300 people... In Charkhi Dadri about 349 lives were lost So, here is hoping from Govt that they will not file an FIR against us if we put wrong report

12:57 Because after so many reports, the news was that black box can't be here, we don't have technology, our lab can't see it, it caught fire, it is going out, it is going to America. I don't know if America will expose Boeing Now the news is coming or after outrage the government realized that this is a shame... we are world leader Now they are saying that this was false report. So are you suing the 50 mainstream newspapers for false reports? Please tell So a little transparency from the owners and a little regular updates from the government. So the life of those people their families will not be mocked who are still mourning

13:44 This trend, Ok it happened in Pushkar, it happened at railway station, people will forget it in few days then don't mention it, if this joke is not played then it would be better