India, July 12 -- The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has released its preliminary report into the Air India Flight 171 crash, shedding light on the chaotic final seconds before the plane plunged from the sky, killing 241 people onboard, with one survivor.
The report, made public shortly after midnight on Saturday-exactly a month after the country's deadliest aviation tragedy in decades-offers the first official insight into what went wrong.
Among the most chilling revelations in the AAIB's preliminary report is a cockpit exchange between the two pilots seconds after takeoff, in which one pilot noticed that fuel had been cut off to both engines and asked, "Why did you cut off?" The other responded, "I did not do so."
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