Capt. Alexis Tombras
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Continued divergence in Eurozone public debt dynamics with deleveraging in Southern Europe and growing indebtedness in Northern Europe. Aggregate stable at roughly 5ppts of GDP above the pre-pandemic level. The coming German debt splurge will raise it further.













Unsurprisingly, the UK CAA are now seeking information as to why the Captain of Air India 132 elected to accept and fly an aircraft, with a suspected “No dispatch” fault with a fuel control switch, 9 hours to BLR before then grounding the aircraft...🙄 reuters.com/world/india/uk…

Is it just me? Or does anyone else find this massive push by the Indian media to force a technical narrative for the AI171 crash very unsettling? And this to the absolute exclusion of the other uncomfortable, but very possible reason? Some of the technical arguments are dubious at best, and in most cases just plain wrong, based on poor technical knowledge of the 787 systems. IF this was a human-driven incident then hiding the potential cause due to cultural issues around blame does nothing to address an underlying, and industry wide problem around pilots mental health, and a reticence to report problems. The CVR/Area recorder will already have given investigators a definitive answer in the form of the distinct audio signature of both fuel control switches being moved deliberately, IF that was the case. The sooner this is released the sooner the industry can deal with the root cause of the crash. 📷 Reuters



All the efforts by India's media to constantly force a narrative that is out of touch with technical realities makes me want to make sure I never end up flying on Air India.










