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    Home - India - Fuel to engines of Air India plane that crashed switched off moments after take-off report finds
    India Updated:July 12, 2025

    Fuel to engines of Air India plane that crashed switched off moments after take-off report finds

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    Fuel to engines of Air India plane that crashed switched off moments after take-off report finds

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    • Preliminary findings indicate that the fuel cutoff switches for both engines of the Air India Boeing 787 transitioned to “CUTOFF” shortly after take-off, leading to a loss of power.
    • Confusion was reported among the pilots, with one asking why the cutoff occurred, while the other denied initiating it; one pilot made a mayday call just before the crash.
    • The investigation into the crash is ongoing, with a final report expected within a year; no recommended actions have been issued for Boeing 787 operators at this stage.

    Fuel to engines of Air India plane that crashed switched off moments after take-off, report finds

    Fuel to the engines of the Air India plane that crashed last month appears to have cut off shortly after take-off, a preliminary report has found.

    According to the report switches in the Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s cockpit that controlled fuel moved to a “CUTOFF” position.

    It said: “Engine 1 and Engine 2 fuel cutoff switches transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF position one after another with a time gap of one second.

    “The Engine N1 and N2 began to decrease from their take-off values as the fuel supply to the engines was cut off.”

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    There was then confusion in the cockpit. In the voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why he “cut off”. The other pilot responds that he did not do so.

    The 15-page report did not identify which comments were made by the flight’s captain and which were made by the first officer. One of the pilots made a “mayday, mayday, mayday” call just before the crash.

    Both pilots were experienced jet pilots with around 19,000 flying hours between them, including more than 9,000 on the 787.

    Flipping to cutoff almost immediately cuts the engines, and is most often used to turn the engines off once a plane has arrived at its airport gate and in certain emergency situations, such as an engine fire. The report does not indicate there was any emergency requiring an engine cutoff.

    The preliminary report does not give a conclusion as to how the switches moved.

    Tim Atkinson, a pilot and aviation consultant explained: “One would be an utterly extraordinary human error, an unintentional act, and the other – I’m very sorry to say – would be an intentional act. And that’s not a suggestion or allegation, it’s simply an analysis of the small amount of information that we have at hand at this moment.”

    One of the engines was able to be restarted, but could not reverse the plane’s deceleration, the report found.

    “At this stage of investigation, there are no recommended actions to Boeing 787-8 and/or GE GEnx-1B engine operators and manufacturers,” India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) said in the report.

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    No significant bird activity was observed in the vicinity of the plane’s flight path, the report said. The aircraft started to lose altitude before crossing the airport perimeter wall, it added.

    The plane plummeted into a busy area, killing 241 passengers and 19 others on the ground while incinerating everything around it.

    The plane’s two black boxes, which combined cockpit voice recorders and flight data recorders, were recovered in the days after the crash.

    They provide vital data such as altitude, airspeed and final pilot conversations which can help narrow down the possible causes behind a crash.

    The AAIB’s report is based on the initial findings of the probe, marking 30 days since the crash. It said the investigation is continuing. A final report is expected within a year.

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