# A preliminary report depicted confusion in the cockpit shortly before an Air India jetliner crashed last month, killing 260 people on board. According to investigators of India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, the plane’s engine fuel cutoff switches almost simultaneously flipped, starving the engines of fuel shortly after take-off. The report did not say how the switches could have flipped to the cutoff position. According to the report, one pilot was heard on the cockpit voice recorder asking the other why he cut off the fuel. The other pilot responded that he did not do so.
Air India preliminary crash report shows pilot confusion over engine switch movement