{"id":257240,"date":"2025-07-11T21:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T21:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257240\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T21:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T21:48:10","slug":"engine-fuel-switches-cut-off-before-air-india-crash-that-killed-260-preliminary-report-finds-air-india-ahmedabad-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257240\/","title":{"rendered":"Engine fuel switches cut off before Air India crash that killed 260, preliminary report finds | Air India Ahmedabad plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/aaib.gov.in\/What&#039;s%20New%20Assets\/Preliminary%20Report%20VT-ANB.pdf\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">preliminary report by Indian aviation accident investigators<\/a> said the fatal Air India crash that killed 260 people in Ahmedabad in June showed the plane engines\u2019 fuel switches shifting from run to cutoff within seconds of each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The report also contained information about the pilots discussing the switches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\u201cIn 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,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The investigation into the disaster is continuing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\u201cAt this stage of investigation, there are no recommended actions to Boeing 787-8 and\/or GE GEnx-1B engine operators and manufacturers\u201d India\u2019s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">More than 240 passengers and crew onboard the flight died, as did 19 people on the ground, including five medical students. One passenger, Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, survived the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The agency, an office under India\u2019s civil aviation ministry, is leading the investigation into the world\u2019s deadliest aviation accident in a decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">More details soon \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A preliminary report by Indian aviation accident investigators said the fatal Air India crash that killed 260 people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-257240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114836806302298054","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}