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Air India crash report raises a new mystery
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THE captain of the tragic Air India flight stayed calm as he deliberately cut off fuel to both engines seconds after takeoff, US officials have claimed. Sumeet Sabharwal — the 56-year-old veteran
A preliminary finding into last month’s Air India plane crash has suggested the aircraft’s fuel control switches were turned off, starving the engines of fuel and causing a loss of engine thrust shortly after takeoff.
A black-box recording reveals that the captain of an Air India flight turned off switches controlling fuel to the engines, according to the Wall Street Journal. This revelation comes from early assessments by U.