According to the Wall Street Journal, sources close to the US side of the investigation have said the voice cockpit recording suggests Sabharwal turned off the switches, one after the other, exactly a

International airlines from South Korea and India are preparing to inspect its Boeing fleets following findings from the Air India crash investigation.

As fresh scrutiny surrounds Boeing after the Air India AI 171 crash, aviation expert Mary Schiavo reveals that a similar fuel cut-off malfunction plagued a Japanese Boeing 787 in 2019 — with pilots never touching the controls.

The preliminary report published by India ’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau found that the fuel control switches were moved to the “cut-off” position almost simultaneously, starving the engines of fuel. The brief information comes from the assessment of the voice recorder from the black boxes of the plane.

Uncover the controversy surrounding the Air India Flight AI171 crash in Ahmedabad, where Captain Sumeet Sabharwal is under scrutiny following allegations from a Wall Street Journal report that claim he may have cut the fuel switches.

The sudden movement of engine fuel switches has taken centre stage in the investigation of the Air India Boeing Dreamliner crash that killed 260 people in June, the world's worst aviation disaster in a decade.