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Evelyn Ann-Marie Dom

Engine fuel cutoff moments before Air India plane crash, preliminary report reveals

Fuel control switches were switched from "run" to "cutoff", before an Air India plane crashed last month, a preliminary investigation report by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Burea revealed early on Saturday.

Shortly after takeoff, and once the plane reached its top recorded speed of 180 knots, “the Engine 1 and Engine 2 fuel cutoff switches transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF position one after another" within a second, which caused a loss of engine thrust moments after it left the runway, the report revealed.

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