I watched a very comprehensive and professional video by Captain Steeeve on this subject earlier today. He didn’t outright literally say that one of the pilots deliberately downed the plane, but it was very clear that he thought that was the only explanation that really made sense here. Why do you say it sounds like they “did not mean to do so”? The switches are designed to not be movable without considerable deliberation and intent, you can’t just bump these with your knee and switch them off. And both pilots were plenty experienced enough to know that you don’t turn those switches off at that point in the flight.
Highly recommend everyone give this a listen. It covered most of the other possibilities people are bringing up in this thread:
They have to be pulled out, moved, and pushed back in to change the state
The plane cannot take off with them in the wrong position
There is no procedure to ever toggle both off at the same time, and no procedure to toggle them off period at their low altitude
Both were toggled off within 1 seconds of each other
The engines were functioning normally when they were toggled off
Captain Steve really tried to not blame the pilots in previous videos about this crash, in fact he really believed it had to be something else, so it says a lot that this is the only conclusion he can come up with.
In the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why did he cutoff. The other pilot responded that he did not do so."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx20p2x9093t
Until there’s independent evidence otherwise I’m going to assume either fudged maintenance reports or the switch designer at boeing is about to commit suicide by shooting themself in the back of the head hours before talking to the press.
I watched a very comprehensive and professional video by Captain Steeeve on this subject earlier today. He didn’t outright literally say that one of the pilots deliberately downed the plane, but it was very clear that he thought that was the only explanation that really made sense here. Why do you say it sounds like they “did not mean to do so”? The switches are designed to not be movable without considerable deliberation and intent, you can’t just bump these with your knee and switch them off. And both pilots were plenty experienced enough to know that you don’t turn those switches off at that point in the flight.
Highly recommend everyone give this a listen. It covered most of the other possibilities people are bringing up in this thread:
Captain Steve really tried to not blame the pilots in previous videos about this crash, in fact he really believed it had to be something else, so it says a lot that this is the only conclusion he can come up with.
Until there’s independent evidence otherwise I’m going to assume either fudged maintenance reports or the switch designer at boeing is about to commit suicide by shooting themself in the back of the head hours before talking to the press.
Surely someone committing suicide and taking hundreds of people with him in the process wouldn’t lie about it.