Cockpit switches critical for the fuel supply for engines on the Air India plane that crashed soon after takeoff from Ahmedabad in India in June were switched off, according to a preliminary report. The cockpit voice recorder on the London-bound Boeing 787 Dreamliner that crashed on June 12 has captured confusion between the pilots about how the fuel-control switches came to be switched off,

The Air India jetliner that crashed on June 12 was doomed almost immediately upon taking off, after both engines lost fuel supply and the pilots ran out of time to regain control and avert catastrophe.