A new report into last month’s deadly Air India crash has revealed that both engines of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner were shut down just seconds after take-off because the fuel switches were manually set to “CUTOFF”.
The preliminary findings, released by India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), show the fuel switches for Engine 1 and Engine 2 were flipped from RUN to CUTOFF just one second apart, around 15 seconds after take-off. Engine performance dropped almost immediately, and within moments the plane — still under 1,000ft — began to lose height rapidly.
