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 preliminary report depicted confusion in the cockpit shortly before an Air India jetliner crashed, killing more than 200 people last month, after the plane's engine fuel cut-off switches almost simultaneously flipped off,

A Golden Chassis is a specialised tool used to recover data from damaged flight recorders. It consists of an identical, undamaged unit of the same model as the affected recorder and is used to interfa

Due to the extensive damage sustained in the crash, India sought assistance from the US NTSB, which provided the Golden Chassis and specialised cables to extract data from the black boxes.

A US Golden Chassis helped download 49 hours of flight data from Air India's crashed Boeing 787-8's black box. The AAIB used the device to recover crucial data for the investigation.

The preliminary report from the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau reveals that India got specialised equipment from the US National Transportation Safety Board in June

The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has submitted its preliminary report on the AI 171 plane crash to the Ministry of Civil Aviation and other relevant authorities, a report by ANI said citing top sources.

International airlines from South Korea and India are preparing to inspect its Boeing fleets following findings from the Air India crash investigation.