Air India captain may have shut off fuel ahead of deadly crash
Aruna Shantha
18-Jul-2025 07:39:36
Dialogue heard on a cockpit voice recording indicates that the captain of the Air India flight that crashed in June, killing 260 people, may have turned off the fuel just after takeoff, prompting the first officer to panic, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited sources familiar with U.S. official's early assessment.
A preliminary report released last week included detail about the switches, saying the fuel to the plane's engines appeared to have been shut off just seconds after the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner lifted off.
According to that preliminary report, shortly after takeoff, the plane's fuel cutoff switches for both engines went from the "RUN" position to the "CUTOFF" position, one after another within one second -- shutting off fuel to both engines.
In the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why he hit the cutoff switch, according to the preliminary report. "The other pilot responded that he did not do so," that report stated.
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