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PoliticalPilot

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PoliticalPilot

@PilotPoli

Pilot currently working as rampie at Melbourne Airport

Australia

Joined February 2013

PoliticalPilot
@PilotPoli
Jun 12, 2025
This is a screenshot from the AI171 crash video. I'm convinced they have flaps set to 0. Flaps should be set to 5 or 15 degrees. At 37C air temperature and a full fuel load, this would 100% result in the aircraft unable to climb. #Ahmedabad #India #AirIndia
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PoliticalPilot
@PilotPoli
Jun 12, 2025
#BREAKING - New video from surveillance cameras shows the entire flight of #AI171, including the takeoff roll. #Ahmedabad #AirIndia #AirIndiaCrash
00:00
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PoliticalPilot
@PilotPoli
Jun 12, 2025
Replying to @PilotPoli
New video, again, flaps seriously look up to me
PoliticalPilot
@PilotPoli
Jun 12, 2025
#BREAKING - New video from surveillance cameras shows the entire flight of #AI171, including the takeoff roll. #Ahmedabad #AirIndia #AirIndiaCrash
00:00
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PoliticalPilot
@PilotPoli
Jun 12, 2025
Replying to @D__Melb
From the plane itself. Flap 5 or flap 15 are both fairly visible looking at the rear of the wing
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PoliticalPilot
@PilotPoli
Jun 12, 2025
Replying to @PilotPoli
Post crash wing
PoliticalPilot
@PilotPoli
Jun 12, 2025
Post crash image seems to provide more evidence flaps may not have been configured for take off. #AI171 #AirIndia #AirIndiaCrash
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PoliticalPilot
@PilotPoli
Jun 12, 2025
Replying to @PilotPoli
Again, I don't see any indicator of flaps being set for takeoff.
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PoliticalPilot
@PilotPoli
Jun 12, 2025
Replying to @PilotPoli
AI Upscaled
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PoliticalPilot
@PilotPoli
Aug 14, 2023
As someone who works in the aviation industry and who has friends in most roles, I will say that without a doubt flight attendants are the most undervalued and underpaid people in the industry. In one shift you could be a waiter, a firefighter, and a hostage negotiator #MH122
Muhammad Zubair
@chzaib
Aug 14, 2023
Kudos to the staff for sitting with this lunatic and listening to his bs and keeping him occupied. #MH122 #SydneyAirport #Sydney
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PoliticalPilot
@PilotPoli
Jun 12, 2025
Post crash image seems to provide more evidence flaps may not have been configured for take off. #AI171 #AirIndia #AirIndiaCrash
PoliticalPilot
@PilotPoli
Jun 12, 2025
This is a screenshot from the AI171 crash video. I'm convinced they have flaps set to 0. Flaps should be set to 5 or 15 degrees. At 37C air temperature and a full fuel load, this would 100% result in the aircraft unable to climb. #Ahmedabad #India #AirIndia
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PoliticalPilot
@PilotPoli
Dec 18, 2022
Replying to @EdKrassen and @elonmusk
If verified wasn't just a paid program I'd agree. Locking people out because they don't want/can't pay for the program isn't fair. Twitter is used globally, including in countries where twitter blue is expensive for the average person.
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PoliticalPilot
@PilotPoli
Jan 18, 2023
The Herald Sun is currently running an entire article claiming that this is a hole in the righthand engine of #QF144. The only problem is that it was the left-hand engine that failed, and the images show the normal operation of the reverse thruster on a 737-800. #qantas
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PoliticalPilot
@PilotPoli
Oct 13, 2023
Replying to @spectatorindex
If the attacker was angry about the persecution of Muslims, maybe they should look slightly closer to home....
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PoliticalPilot
@PilotPoli
Jun 12, 2025
Replying to @PilotPoli
For reference, this is an AI 787 with its flaps correctly set for take off
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PoliticalPilot
@PilotPoli
Sep 13, 2023
Replying to @Osinttechnical
The latest in a country without a navy....... destroys an enemy submarine.
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