Captain Sumit Sabharwal was widely blamed after an Air India crash, with claims that he manually cut off the fuel supply mid-flight.

Experts said such a move required deliberate action, shifting responsibility away from systems and authorities.

However, after a recent Ahmedabad incident, another Boeing 787 was grounded when pilots reported the fuel switch moving to “cut-off” automatically.

The development raises a critical question: was a dead pilot made a scapegoat instead of probing a deeper technical failure?