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Al Jazeera Staff

What happened to the fuel-control switches on doomed Air India flight 171?

The tail of Air India Flight 171 after it crashed in a residential area near the airport in Ahmedabad [Central Industrial Security Force/AFP]

New details about last month’s Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, which killed 260 people, have emerged this week, shifting focus onto the actions of the senior pilot during the last moments before the plane crashed.

According to a report published on Wednesday by The Wall Street Journal quoting sources close to United States officials’ early assessment of evidence, the black box audio recording of the last conversation between the two pilots indicates that the captain might have turned off the switches controlling the flow of fuel to the plane’s engines.

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