There's more evidence indicating it was a deliberate or accidental action by one of the pilots than evidence pointing to a mechanical issue, and that's what I'm going with. There's not "a million other explanations". You seem emotionally invested in the outcome, calling various real life pilots making videos "rags", calling me racist when I made absolutely no claims of the sort, claiming I'd feel different about various nations...

Guess we'll see in that final report. I know what I'd be putting my money on, if I gambled. The preponderance of evidence at this point suggest an accidental or deliberate manipulation of the switches by one of the pilots.

Well specifically related to this:

If it’s spring based, and one side failed, it’s possible that next to no force will flip it to one side, but it takes the expected amount of force to move it in the other direction.

It’s the same direction for the supposed accidental move to CUTOFF you propose and the move to CUTOFF that didn’t happen when the plane didn’t hit the ground. The switches were placed in RUN and stayed that way until they were recovered. I have a very hard time believing they went to CUTOFF from some relatively light force during climb out, yet did not move at all when experiencing high forces during the crash.

See, there you go again. Don’t assume how I would judge American pilots either, I have no dog in this fight, and if an American pilot made a grave mistake or committed suicide that’s just as bad. The issue I see clouding your vision, as well as many other Indians, is nationalism. You need to let go of your national pride and take an objective look at this, I would say the exact same thing if it was a pilot from the United States. I don’t care what their motives are or how it reflects on a certain carrier from any country, it’s just what seems most plausible given all available evidence.

You’re the only one bringing race and nationality into this conversation.

It doesn’t seem like you’re familiar with the sequence of events in the crash.

The switches moved from run to cut off - who knows why. I believe the pilots did it, you believe it’s the detents.

The pilots then moved them from cutoff to run.

The switches stayed in run throughout the entire crash sequence. If the detents were bad before, why would they not be bad again here?

If the detent failed when they moved from run to cutoff during climb out, it would have also failed during the crash sequence, when significantly higher forces were experienced.

I’ll keep speculating until the final report is out.

So a mechanical failure let the switches go from RUN to CUTOFF during flight, but they remained in RUN during the entire crash sequence? I don't buy that. The forces experienced by the plane would be magnitudes greater during impact with the ground than any kind of turbulence or other bumps.

It was a rhetorical question, but it does make me wonder what the ratio of little white girls to black people is in terms of eliciting a response from the federal government. Shit is despicable.

Wonder why they didn’t think of something like this after Katrina? 1833 fatalities in that shit show of a disaster response vs 129 in these latest Texas floods.

What killed them was a deliberate action by one of the pilots. The motive we may never know, but it doesn't look good either way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525

There’s no communication between the two pilots before the switches were moved to cutoff to suggest they encountered any problems prior to fuel cutoff.

Mentour Pilot did a livestream today, he's also one of the major commercial aviation YouTubers.

This is hilarious considering they fucked over the EPA provision that prevented one state’s emissions from harming another (eg Ohio smoke causing acid rain in upstate NY).