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Evening Standard
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Matt Watts and Bill Bowkett

'Why’d you cut off?' pilot asked as fuel switches shut down before Air India crash that killed 260

Fuel to the engines of the Gatwick-bound Air India plane that crashed and killed 260 people cut off seconds after the flight took off, a preliminary report has found.

Preliminary findings of the investigation into the crash in Ahmedabad, India, last month indicate that both switches controlling fuel flow to the jet’s two engines were switched off almost simultaneously, three seconds after taking off, starving the engines of fuel.

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