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Helen William

Fuel switches cut off before Air India crash, preliminary report says

Officials inspect the site of Thursday’s Air India plane crash (Ajit Solanki/AP) - (AP)

Fuel supplies to the engines of the Air India jet that crashed last month, killing 241 people on board, were cut off apparently without either pilot having switched them off, a preliminary report into the disaster said.

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed shortly after take-off on June 12 in what is one of the deadliest plane accidents in terms of the number of British nationals killed.

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