Скачать или смотреть Air India plane crash report: Engine fuel switches cut off before crash that killed 260

Fuel supply to the engines of the Air India plane that crashed last month was cut off just seconds after the flight took off, a preliminary report by Indian aviation accident investigators has found.

Exactly a month back, the London Gatwick-bound flight came down in a residential area of Ahmedabad on 12 June, killing a total of 260 people.

The 15-page document published by India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, which is part of the ongoing probe into what caused the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner to come down, found that fuel control switches were moved to “cut-off” position as the aircraft rose from take-off.

The report also includes a conversation between the pilots on the fuel controls before the crash.

“In the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why did he cut-off. The other pilot responded that he did not do so,” the report said.


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