LEAKED: Final 18 Seconds of Air India 171 — “We’re Losing Thrust!” Co-Pilot’s Terrified Words Reveal Hidden Terror
In the dim, pressurized silence of a cockpit cruising toward the edge of tragedy, time slowed. Flight Air India 171 had barely left the tarmac before something went fatally wrong. What began as a routine departure quickly devolved into a nightmare—a chilling descent marked by confusion, mechanical failure, and an eerie final outburst that defied logic and shook even the most seasoned investigators.
Now, thanks to leaked black box transcripts and cockpit voice recordings, the final moments of AI171 are coming to light. And what they reveal is more than just a mechanical fault—it’s a descent into something no one on board could fully explain.
The First 18 Seconds: A Flight Begins
The flight had just lifted from the Mumbai runway on a clear morning, the hum of the engines stable and reassuring. On board were 92 passengers and 8 crew members, many of them headed to reunite with family, attend business meetings, or simply vacation. Spirits were high.
But in the cockpit, only 18 seconds after takeoff, things began to unravel.
CO-PILOT (Voice trembling): “We’re losing thrust! Engine two—pressure’s dropping—”
CAPTAIN (Urgent): “Switch to auxiliary. Cross-check!”
Flight recorders indicate that the right engine began to lose thrust inexplicably. This wasn’t a gradual fade—it was a sudden, unexplained failure. The aircraft began to yaw unnaturally to the right. Pilots began checklist procedures with speed and precision, but something else was happening that couldn’t be diagnosed by instruments.
Panic, Static, and Something Else
At 24 seconds post-takeoff, an unusual burst of static filled the cockpit recording. Analysts described it not as electronic interference, but a sound “resembling radio feedback mixed with a low-frequency hum—almost like a distant growl.”
Moments later, the captain’s voice turned from controlled to distressed.
CAPTAIN (shouting): “What is that? Do you see it—at one o’clock—?”
CO-PILOT (confused): “Sir, I—I don’t see anything!”
Investigators say no visual obstructions were recorded by either the tower or radar. There was no known aircraft, bird activity, or weather anomaly in their flight path. But the captain repeated his alarm three times.
CAPTAIN (increasingly agitated): “It’s getting closer! What the hell is that thing?!”
Mechanical Mayhem or Mind-Bending Terror?
By 40 seconds, the flight was dropping altitude fast. The second engine’s power fluctuated erratically, causing alarms to blare in the cockpit. But behind the chaos of blinking lights and warning tones was something stranger—a fear in the captain’s voice that wasn’t technical. It was primal.
Then came the sound that no one can explain.
The cockpit voice recorder captured a deep, guttural noise—barely audible, like something not meant for human ears. Analysts from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation reportedly flagged the audio as “unidentifiable and not originating from any aircraft system.”
CO-PILOT (voice cracking): “It’s inside… it’s inside…!”
Was it a hallucination triggered by stress? Or something more?
The Final Words
Just as the crew initiated a left bank to attempt an emergency return to the airport, all cockpit communication ceased. For 7 seconds, there was only breathing. Then a final, chilling statement from the captain:
CAPTAIN (whispering): “It’s watching us.”
Those were his last words.
At 1 minute and 12 seconds after takeoff, Flight AI171 struck a field just beyond the city’s industrial outskirts. The impact destroyed the aircraft, killing all 100 people on board. The fireball was seen for kilometers.
Aftermath & Theories
The official report cited “dual engine failure of unknown origin.” But insiders say investigators were divided. The right engine showed signs of fuel starvation, but the left was intact—yet failed anyway.
Rumors began to swirl. Had a bird strike damaged critical systems? Was sabotage involved? Or was it something even less explainable—something never before recorded in aviation history?
And what of the captain’s final outburst?
“It’s watching us.”
Was he seeing a hallucination in his final seconds? Or had he witnessed something—something off the record?
Unreleased Evidence? Whistleblowers Speak
Two weeks after the crash, a technician at the black box lab anonymously contacted a journalist with a claim: that audio from the cockpit had been redacted before the official public release. According to him, “there was a voice on the tape—a third voice that whispered something we couldn’t trace.”
He continued:
“We heard it say, ‘Not yet.’ Then the alarms went off.”
Whether this was a technical artifact or something else remains unproven. The DGCA refused to comment on claims of audio manipulation. The technician has since vanished from public records.
The Lingering Mystery
Even now, years later, the crash of Air India 171 remains one of the most mysterious in Indian aviation history. The official explanation sits uneasily with many aviation professionals, who say the sequence of events doesn’t line up with any known failure scenario.
Passengers’ families were left without closure. Survivors from the emergency response team still speak in hushed tones about the scene they discovered. “It wasn’t just a crash,” one responder told a local reporter. “It felt like something wanted that plane down.”
Was it a fluke of technology? A tragedy born of cascading mechanical failures?
Or was it something darker?
Whatever happened in those final 72 seconds, one thing is clear: the co-pilot’s terrified declaration—“We’re losing thrust!”—was only the beginning of a descent that still haunts everyone who hears the tape. And the captain’s final whisper echoes like a riddle with no answer.
