New report sheds light on Air India crash that killed 260
NBC Newsยท2025-07-12 03:00
The preliminary Air India crash report says that seconds after flight 171 took off, the fuel cut off switches for both engines went from run to cut off. Within 1 second, the engines lost power. The report states in the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why did he cut off.The other pilot responded that he did not do so. The switches were flipped back to run, but it was too late. The report says one of the pilots radioed a mayday as the plane soon crashed into a medical scho ...