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This screengrab from UGC video footage shows thick black smoke billowing from a residential area after Air India flight AI171 crashed in Ahmedabad on June 12, 2025. [AFP]
Fuel control switches to the engines of an Air India flight that crashed shortly after take-off, killing 260 people, were moved from the "run" to the "cutoff" position moments before impact, a preliminary investigation report said early Saturday.
The report, issued by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, did not offer any conclusions or apportion blame for the June 12 disaster, but indicated that one pilot asked the other why he cut off fuel, and the second pilot responded that he had not.
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