Air India released a statement stating, that the aircraft was under control by flight crew at all times, at no time the flight attendants were at the controls of the aircraft.
AI are bound to say that. If they said anything else Joe Public would automatically think it was normal for them to control the a/c. Regarding the FO I guess his mind was on other things. Was it his knee that knocked out the AP?
Hell now the Daily Mail have got the story!!
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