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.

A preliminary finding into last month’s Air India plane crash has suggested the aircraft’s fuel control switches were turned off, starving the engines of fuel and causing a loss of engine thrust shortly after takeoff.

A black-box recording reveals that the captain of an Air India flight turned off switches controlling fuel to the engines, according to the Wall Street Journal. This revelation comes from early assessments by U.

A Golden Chassis is a specialised tool used to recover data from damaged flight recorders. It consists of an identical, undamaged unit of the same model as the affected recorder and is used to interfa

Data from the forward EAFR was extracted at the AAIB lab in New Delhi on June 24. The Crash Protection Module was found intact and in good condition.