See Juan Browne, Stig Aviation and Taking Off on the Air India 787 Crash . You can download the report from https://aaib.gov.in/What's%20New%20Assets/Preliminary%20Report%20VT-ANB.pdf . It does, perhaps, explain why the flight recorder was located 1,000 feet away, because the wreckage was spread over a distance of 1,000 feet: "The wreckage, from the first impact point till the last identified aircraft item, was distributed in [sic] an area of approx. 1000 ft x 400 ft". So the tail section impacted first and that's where they found the aft EAFR. Subscribe to Blancolirio . Subscribe to Al Jazeera English . Now the Internet of Experts is speculating that it was pilot error/insanity, but there is going to have to be a long and very difficult cyber-forensic investigation of the software systems in the switch sensors and the cockpit data recorders, because they have to rule out sabotage. There's a company in Israel that are experts in this kind of whole-system se...