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Families unhappy with report on Air India plane crash
The Guardian
|July 14, 2025
Families of the Air India crash victims say they are hoping for more answers from investigators after a report found the plane's fuel switches were cut off.
The preliminary report from India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, published on Friday, said both the Boeing 787's fuel switches moved to the cut-off position immediately after takeoff, stopping fuel supply to the engines.
"In the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why did he cut-off. The other pilot responded that he did not do so," the report reads.
While the report said the fuel switches had almost simultaneously flipped from run to cutoff just after takeoff, it did not say how they could have moved during the flight.
The London-bound Dreamliner crashed into a medical college hostel after taking off from Ahmedabad on 12 June, killing 241 people on board. Another 19 died on the ground and 67 were seriously injured.
The cousin of Dhir and Heer Baxi, sisters who were flying home to London when they were killed in the crash, said he was not satisfied by the report.
This story is from the July 14, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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