MUMBAI — The preliminary report on last month’s deadly Air India crash showed that cutting off of the fuel supply to the aircraft’s two engines was likely the main cause of the crash, which killed 260 people.
In the widely anticipated preliminary report, published early on Saturday morning, India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau said that the plane’s fuel cutoff switches, which must be open to allow fuel to flow into the engines, were moved just after takeoff from Ahmedabad Airport in Gujarat, starving the engines as the aircraft tried to gain altitude.
