India, July 13 -- The tragic crash of Air India Express Flight IX 171 near Ahmedabad, which took the lives of all onboard, including two pilots, has stirred not only grief but also the beginnings of a disturbing investigative narrative - one where inference, not evidence, begins to shape public perception.

The preliminary report has suggested that both engines lost thrust after takeoff, possibly due to manual activation of fuel control cutoff switches in the cockpit. A tense and cryptic cockpit voice recording quotes Captain Sumeet Sabharwal asking, "Why did you cut off the fuel?," to which first officer Clive Kunder replies, "I did not do so". This fragment, stripped of context or clarity, has already led to speculative commentary about...