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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi, Nadeem Badshah and agencies

Engine fuel switches cut off before Air India crash that killed 260, preliminary report finds

A crashed plane
The Indian army's engineering arm prepare to remove the wreckage of the Air India aircraft in Ahmedabad in June. Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters

Fuel to both engines of the Air India plane that crashed and killed 260 people last month appears to have been cut off seconds after the flight took off, a preliminary report has found.

Air India flight AI171, bound for London, crashed into a densely populated residential area in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on 12 June, killing all but one of the 242 people on board and 19 others on the ground. It was India’s deadliest air crash in almost three decades.

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