The deadly Air India crash last month has renewed a decades-old debate in the aviation industry over installing video cameras monitoring airline pilot actions to complement the cockpit voice and flight data recorders already used by accident investigators.

The first officer asked the more experienced captain why he moved the switches to the "cutoff" position after it climbed off the runway, the report said.

Captain Steve Scheibner, a seasoned pilot and aviation expert, believes that the deadly crash was the result of human action within the cockpit. Insisting that the aircraft itself was not to blame, he suggested that there was a "human hand" behind the accident.

The Federation of Indian Pilots association has also demanded a formal and unconditional apology from both the media organisations.

Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, 56, was the senior pilot onboard the Boeing 787 Dreamliner that plummeted into a residential area, killing 241 people on board and 19 people on the ground.

Tata Sons launched the AI-171 Memorial and Welfare Trust in Mumbai to assist victims of the Air India flight crash, pledging ₹500 crores for medical care and infrastructure support for dependents and first responders.

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