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Air India Flight 171 Crash: Unraveling the Mystery (Preliminary Report Analysis)

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Tragic Air India's Boeing 787 Crash: Initial Speculation vs. Facts An Air India's Boeing 787 took off for what should have been a routine nine-hour flight, but then ended up crashing into buildings just half a minute after departure. Why? What actually happened? Well, I will get to the details from the interim report soon, but first I want to talk about the period leading up to its release on the 11th of July, 2025. Unfortunately, in the immediate aftermath of this tragedy, there were no real updates from the investigators, which frankly isn't that surprising given how much they had to do and how careful they needed to be in weighing the information. But this also meant that there was a substantial information vacuum, which gave rise to wild speculation or even worse, real trash in the form of deliberate misinformation that a very large section of the public just wasn't equipped to distinguish from the truth. The Challenge of AI-Generated Hoaxes and Critical Thinking Fo...