Pilots manually cutting the engines were to blame for the two most deadly air crashes of this decade, investigations suggest.
The Jeju Air emergency-landing crash killed 179 people in December, and 241 people died when the Air India plane came down shortly after takeoff in June.
Investigators have sensationally revealed there is "clear evidence" that the Jeju Air pilots mistakenly shut down the wrong engine after a bird strike.
The plane was then forced to make an emergency landing at Muan International Airport on December 29, where it slammed into a concrete wall and burst into a fireball.
Meanwhile, the leading theory in the Air India crash is that the pilot manually flipped both guarded fuel switches to the “cut-off” position — a move aviation experts say could only have been deliberate.
A report from the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau of India (AAIB) revealed a recording of the panicked co-pilot asking which the main pilot shut off the engines.
With a total of 420 lives thrown away by the flick of three buttons, urgent questions are swirling about what can be done to reduce the risk of pilot error or sabotage.
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