The captain of the crashed Air India jet is likely to have cut off the fuel supply before it went down in Ahmedabad, US officials believe.

Experts have since said it is not easy to “accidentally” cut off fuel switches. The 15-page document also includes a conversation between the pilots on the fuel controls before the crash.

Preliminary findings into last month’s Air India plane crash suggest the aircraft’s fuel control switches were turned off, causing a loss of engine thrust shortly after takeoff. The report, issued ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Fuel control switches for the engines of an Air India flight that crashed last month were moved from the “run” to the “cutoff” position moments before impact, starving ...

Cockpit recordings from the Air India crash reveal pilot confusion after fuel cutoff switches mysteriously flipped during takeoff, causing engines to lose power in the disaster.

The Air India flight — a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner — crashed on June 12 and killed at least 260 people, including 19 on the ground, in the northwestern city of Ahmedabad. Only one passenger ...

A preliminary report on the Air India crash that killed 260 people finds that both fuel switches were in the cut-off position moments before the plane crashed in Ahmedabad Audio recordings from ...

A preliminary report on the Air India crash that killed 260 people finds that both fuel switches were in the cut-off position moments before the plane crashed in Ahmedabad Audio recordings from the ...