A preliminary report released last week included detail about the fuel, saying that the fuel to the plane's engines appeared to have been shut off.

President Captain CS Randhawa condemned a media report alleging that the captain of the Air India AI171 flight that crashed in Ahmedabad had deliberately cut off fuel to the engines. Randhawa called the Wall Street Journal’s (WSJ) claims 'baseless' and said that the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau's (AAIB) preliminary report makes no such mention.

Following the AAIB's preliminary report into the Air India AI 171 plane crash on 12 June 2025, social media users shared false and misleading claims surrounding the series of events leading up to, and the party responsible for the fatal crash.