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According to AAIB report, fuel cutoff switches to both engines of AI171 aircraft activated soon after take-off
Investigators probing the June crash of Air India Flight 171, which killed 260 people, have uncovered a perplexing clue:
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
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The Pioneer on MSNFuel switch cutoff triggered Ahmedabad crashThe Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau's (AAIB) preliminary probe report on the fatal Air India plane accident in Ahmedabad has put the spotlight on the fuel switches of the crashed Boeing 787-8 and the confusion among the two pilots over the switches being cut off.