India, July 19 -- US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) chairwoman Jennifer Homendy has said the agency will continue to support the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau's (AAIB) probe into the Air India plane crash and warned against jumping to conclusions, calling recent reports about the incident "premature and speculative."

On June 12, Air India's Boeing 787-8 aircraft, en route from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick, crashed into a building shortly after takeoff, killing 260 people, including 19 on the ground. Out of the 242 people onboard, only one passenger survived.

The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau released its preliminary report into the crash on July 12.

"Recent media reports on the Air India 171 crash are prem...