Could be failure of the air data system that messed up the fly-by-wire system causing the pilot to be unable to pull up. Since the 787 is fully FBW, this could put the pilot in a situation where they can't do anything.

@InvertedKnife note failure could be due to bird strikes that took out multiple sensors, maintenance issues (probe covers left on), weird electrical failure, etc.

Can the "two blown out engines" be changed to "two engines inoperative" to cover any failure leaving both engines inoperative? It's not clear to me what "blown out" would specifically mean

@MrDsBeans Fair, applied the change.

"Thirty seconds after takeoff, there was a loud noise and then the plane crashed. It all happened so quickly,” said Ramesh [the sole survivor of the crash], speaking to the Hindustan Times."

this screams some kind of catastrophic structural failure to me, i don't think this was pilot error

@SaviorofPlant

the RAT was also deployed in photos which suggests power was lost

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@PaperBoy are you the same paper boy from HWNDU?

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Not gonna float the nathan fielder option "pilot communication"?

@BenM I think that falls under Pilot error? Also, man what a time for that final to have aired.

@TimothyBandors Yeah, it would. But it could also be separated since you could have pilot error without communication issues or communication issue preventing resolution of any of the options.

I don't know how to best structure that question, I'm mostly making a joke

@BenM loool