Three things need to be flagged after the incident involving Air India flight AI2379, an Airbus A320neo from Phuket to New Delhi, on August 4, which lost its flight controls after multiple hydraulic system failures and suddenly dropped 300 feet. Immediately after the incident, Air India tried to dismiss it as "turbulence", implying it was an act of God and ruling out any system malfunction. But the Ministry of Civil Aviation called it a sudden loss of altitude and classified it as a serious incident. A preliminary engineering assessment of the decoded flight data reveals that the aircraft experienced three hydraulic system failures within seconds of each other. The analysis said elevators and aileron surfaces were lost for........

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