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Dreamliner was doomed after being starved of fuel
The Independent
|July 13, 2025
Simon Calder picks out key elements from the flight that killed 260, after studying the preliminary report on the crash
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Fuel switches for the engines of the Air India jet that crashed last month, killing 241 people on board, were cut off, a preliminary report into the disaster revealed.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad on 12 June. The report from the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) said three seconds after takeoff, the London Gatwick-bound aircraft was climbing and accelerating with an airspeed of 180 knots (207mph), in line with normal performance.
The report says: “Immediately thereafter, the Engine 1 and Engine 2 fuel cutoff switches transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF position one after another.” There was a one-second gap between the transition for each engine.
The first crucial question: what caused the transition? The report says: “In the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why did he cutoff? The other pilot responded that he did not do so.”
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