NEW DELHI, India. A cockpit voice recording from the Air India flight that crashed last month suggests the plane’s captain may have turned off the fuel supply to the engines shortly after takeoff, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.
The crash, which occurred on June 12, killed 260 people. The Journal cited sources familiar with an early U.S. assessment of the evidence, which includes cockpit audio of the exchange between the two pilots on board the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
According to the report, First Officer Clive Kunder, who was flying the aircraft, asked Captain Sumeet Sabharwal why he had moved the engine fuel switches to the “cutoff” position after the aircraft had just lifted off the runway. The first officer reportedly expressed surprise and began to panic, while the captain remained calm.
India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau had already released a preliminary report last week, describing confusion in the cockpit moments before the crash and raising questions over the position of the engine fuel cutoff switches.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), Boeing, and Air India have not responded to Reuters’ requests for comment.
Captain Sabharwal and First Officer Kunder had 15,638 and 3,403 hours of total flying experience, respectively.
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