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Air India Flight Plunged Nearly 300 Feet—Then Investigators Found Something Else in the Cockpit
NEW DELHI — A preliminary investigation into an Air India flight that suddenly lost altitude over the region between Phuket and New Delhi has uncovered two major areas of concern: a brief failure involving all three of the aircraft’s hydraulic systems and a confirmatory drug test involving the pilot-in-command that was classified as “non-negative” for a psychoactive substance. The findings come from India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), which is still investigating the August 4
