According to the initial investigation report, both fuel control switches supplying fuel to the engines of Air India flight 171 were turned off in quick succession, triggering confusion between the pilots just seconds before the aircraft crashed in Ahmedabad.

The AAIB's preliminary report on the Air India Flight 171 crash sheds light on critical cockpit recordings and the ongoing investigation. Discover the key findings and next steps in the probe.

A preliminary report into the Air India crash that killed 260 people last month showed that seconds after taking off, the plane's engines fuel cutoff switches almost simultaneously flipped from run to cutoff,