Preliminary investigation into accident in Ahmedabad in June also contains details of pilots discussing the switches
Fuel to the engines of the Air India plane that crashed and killed 260 people last month appears to have cut off seconds after taking off, a preliminary report has found.
Switches in the cockpit that controlled fuel moved to a “CUTOFF” position, the report found.
It said: “The aircraft achieved the maximum recorded airspeed of 180 Knots IAS at about 08:08:42 UTC and immediately thereafter, the 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 cutoff.”
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner immediately began to lose thrust and sink, according to the report released by Indian aviation accident investigators into the world’s deadliest plane crash in a decade.
