Fuel control switches to the engines of an Air India flight that crashed shortly after takeoff, killing 260 people, were moved from the "run" to the "cutoff" position moments before impact, a preliminary investigation report said Saturday.

Aviation safety firm CEO Mark D Martin dismissed the preliminary findings entirely, calling them “a rushed and manipulated investigation aimed at blaming the pilots” who died in the crash

The 15-page report from the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), an office attached to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, has zeroed in on the most probable primary cause of the accident

Families of victims, aviation experts, and former pilots express concern over AI171 crash preliminary report, urging transparency, deeper technical scrutiny, and accountability as speculation surrounds fuel cut-off,

Union aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu urged the public to refrain from drawing conclusions about the AI-171 crash, emphasizing the need to await the

Indian pilot representatives are insisting that they should be included in the Air India Boeing 787-8 crash inquiry, arguing that the preliminary findings lean towards bias against the crew. The initial disclosure by the Indian Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau states that fuel-control switches moved to the 'cut-off' position moments after

India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) released the preliminary report into the tragic crash of Air India flight AI171, a Boeing 787-8 aircraft, which crashed shortly after takeoff

The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), which late on Friday released a preliminary report on its investigation into the crash, said it happened because both engines' fuel-control switches were moved to the "cutoff" position simultaneously during takeoff from Ahmedabad.