A black-box recording of their conversation suggests that it was the captain, Sumeet Sabharwal, who turned off the switches, according to sources close to the US side of the probe.

The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) on Thursday asked the government to reassess possible technical misinterpretation or mechanical faults in Air India's Boeing 787-8 plane that crashed last month ...

MUMBAI — Air India's inspection of the locking feature on the fuel control switches of its existing Boeing 787 aircraft found ...

In its latest report on the AI 171 crash investigation, WSJ said that details from the ill-fated Boeing 787-8 aircraft's ...

The speculation, allegations and mythmaking around the AI-171 crash threaten to muddy the truth irreversibly. Who benefits ...

A veteran pilot and aviation consultant has suggested that investigators should also focus on a possible fault in flight ...

A black-box recording and report details indicate that the flight’s captain switched off fuel flow to engines.

CS Randhawa, the FIP chief, slammed the WSJ report, pointing out that the preliminary probe report released last week did not place blame on any pilot.

Following the AAIB's preliminary report into the Air India AI 171 plane crash on 12 June 2025, social media users shared ...

New Delhi, Jul 17 (PTI) A veteran pilot and aviation consultant has suggested that investigators should also focus on a possible fault in flight AI171's stabilizer, which he believes could have ...

The preliminary report said the fuel switches had switched from run to cutoff a second apart just after takeoff, but ...

The investigation into last month's fatal Air India crash is reportedly focusing on the captain's decision to cut fuel to the ...