A cockpit recording of dialogue between the two pilots of the Air India flight that crashed last month supports the view that the captain cut the flow of fuel to the plane's engines, said a source briefed on U.

According to a report published on Wednesday by The Wall Street Journal quoting sources close to United States officials’ early assessment of evidence, the black box audio recording of the last conversation between the two pilots indicates that the captain might have turned off the switches controlling the flow of fuel to the plane’s engines.

While the fuel switches were placed back to RUN around 10 seconds later, it was too late for the aircraft at that point. It crashed into a medical college, killing a total of 241 onboard and 19 on the ground, with a sole survivor miraculously escaping the wreckage by himself. As summarized by the WSJ,