A careful DU member, EX500rider, found that the fuel Run/Cutoff circuitry is analog. I think it might be monitored digitally even when controlled by hard-wiring.

Usually the most obvious conclusion is correct.

I mean that dog looking animal on the leash walking down Main Street was probably a dog...

But it could have been a holographic image of a dog... a small child in a dog costume or possibly a hallucination.

Or it's just a dog.

One of the pilots intentionally crashed the plane. Like German Wings...

Based on what, (other than that is solely a possibility)??

Your example is simplistic and mundanely obvious. There is only one possibility.

The first hull loss of a 787 in over 15 years of flying is the opposite of simple and the only obvious thing about such an event is that it is complex.

https://www.indiatoday.in/the-lowdown/story/air-india-crash-boeing-787-8-ahmedabad-fuel-failure-scenarios-the-lowdown-2754763-2025-07-12

It explores four scenarios: Incompetence, technical failure, pilot sabotage, system sabotage. The pilots both seem to have been very stable with futures to look forward to and enjoy.

Like I said... it looks like a dog... but could be a pet dingo.

I mean it's possible.

Manually toggled each switch to cut-off position prompting someone in the cockpit to say "Why did you cut off?"

But I guess it's *possible that turbulence or an errant elbow knocked them into cutoff sequentially

They are separate circuits. They were turned off in sequence.
And 9 seconds later the crew apparently turned them back on…. In sequence. Heard a former 787 engineer who said no such failure mode has ever been observed. So… not ruling it out, but Im
Extremely doubtful that it was a systems failure.

So sad

The fuel flow switches are analogue. In fact you have to lift the knob to clear metal and push it down until it clicks in place. Twice.

There’s a senior pilot with a podcast that covered it. With pictures. I suppose a naive pilot could have perceived they were off, pulled on the knobs and pushed them down to the off position. But “on” isn’t usually positioned below the first button (perceived to be the “off” position).

The podcast I saw wasn’t privy to the dialogue between the pilots, but likely there is a digital light - probably red and flashing - that comes on once there is no pressure on the tires (meaning they were airborne). That probably motivated one of the pilots to ask that question.

(The tire pressure thing was covered in the podcast. I’ll look for it and post a link.)

On edit: could a naive pilot, during the checklist run, see the fuel switches on then, thinking neither he nor his fellow pilot have touched them yet, then pushed them to the opposite position, the “off” position. The RAT was engaged early, too, when the engines flamed out. That makes a racket! One pilot then nervously glanced down and asked the other if he shut fuel flow off. But it was too late. ….so what do I know (not much). The cockpit voice recorder will help analyze what went wrong. Sad for everyone involved.

I’d like to believe it was not deliberate. But as you said, hard, if not impossible, to do accidentally. And system failure seems very unlikely given the design. Just wow.

it off could have been the one that actually did it.