The AAIB report, released earlier in the day, revealed that both fuel control switches supplying fuel to the engines were turned off seconds after take-off, leading to complete engine shutdown.

AAIB’s preliminary report on Air India plane crash has turned out to be the tip of the iceberg. While it answers a few ...

The AAIB released its preliminary findings on Saturday, offering early insights into what has become one of the deadliest ...

A leading aviation safety expert has suggested that the fatal crash of Air India Flight 171 may have been the result of deliberate human action, raising, for the first time, the possibility of a pilot ...

There were 242 people on board, including 12 crew members. While only one passenger survived, many people on the ground also ...

Pilot denies cutting fuel as preliminary report finds fuel switches were cut off before plane went down - London Gatwick-bound flight came down in Ahmedabad last month killing total of 260 people ...

The Enhanced Airborne Flight Recorders, or black boxes, of AI-171 that crashed in Ahmedabad | Photo Credit: Special ...

Investigators are probing the wreckage and cockpit recorders to understand what went wrong just after takeoff. The Air India ...

Boeing has reached a settlement with a man whose family died in a 737 MAX crash in 2019, a law firm told AFP on Friday, ...

The BBC's International business correspondent Theo Leggett explains the role of the switches and how shifting them is a ...

Flipping to cutoff almost immediately cuts the engines. It is most often used to turn engines off once a plane has arrived at ...

Fuel control switches to the engines of an Air India flight that crashed shortly after takeoff, killing 260 people, were ...