<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="false"><li>A preliminary report on the Air India Flight AI171 crash reveals cockpit audio and technical data shedding light on the moments before the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner went down, killing over 270 people.</li><li>Seconds after takeoff, fuel control switches on the aircraft moved from 'RUN' to 'CUTOFF', resulting in the abrupt severing of fuel supply to the engines, leading to confusion and urgency in the cockpit.</li><li>Efforts were made to restart the engines by moving the switches back to 'RUN', but moments later, a MAYDAY call was issued, and the aircraft crashed outside the airport boundary within 32 seconds of flight.</li><li>The investigation is ongoing to determine the cause of the fatal shutdown, with attention on the potentially incorrectly installed fuel switches and the precise sequence of events in the final moments of the flight.</li></ul>

'Why Did You Cut Off The Fuel?' — Final Cockpit Audio Reveals Confusion Before Air India Crash

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