A black-box recording and report details indicate that the flight’s captain switched off fuel flow to engines.

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A preliminary finding into last month’s Air India plane crash has suggested the aircraft’s fuel control switches were turned off, starving the engines of fuel and causing a loss of engine thrust shortly after takeoff.

A black-box recording reveals that the captain of an Air India flight turned off switches controlling fuel to the engines, according to the Wall Street Journal. This revelation comes from early assessments by U.

AHMEDABAD, India (AP) — Indian investigators on Friday recovered the digital flight data recorder, or the black box, of the Air India flight that fell from the sky and killed 241 people on board and several people on the ground, authorities said.

Air India plane crash investigators have found both of the Boeing 787's "black boxes," hopefully brining an understanding of the cause of the disaster a step closer.

A black-box recording of dialogue between the Air India flight's two pilots indicates it was the captain who turned off switches that controlled fuel flowing to the plane's two engines, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday,

THE doomed Air India flight’s captain was considering quitting his job early to look after his elderly father, his neighbours have revealed. The London Gatwick-bound AI 171 flight was