After the Air India Flight 171 crash on June 12 in Ahmedabad, which resulted in the death of 270 people, aviation experts have been sharing their theories behind what might have caused the crash. While the authorities are yet to declare the findings of their investigation, the last one week has seen several flight cancellations. YouTuber Gaurav Taneja, aka Flying Beast, who previously worked as a commercial pilot for a decade, has been sharing his theories about the workings of airlines, and the technical aspects of the aircraft in question, Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner. In a new post on X, Gaurav has implied that the many cancellations of Air India flights could hint that there is something that the “pilots know something that the public doesn’t.”

Taking to his X account on Thursday evening, Gaurav wrote, “Air India Pilots are snagging aircrafts, grounding, reporting sick and refusing to fly when in doubt. Everyone, including, management, engineering, operations, control center sit on the ground. It is the pilots and the crew who are front line staff that take off and land in these machines.

The pilots know something that the public doesn’t. #AirIndiaCrash”