Air India crash blamed on fuel shut-off

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Aviation expert Terry Tozer comments on preliminary findings into the Air India crash in which investigators say the fuel supply was manually cut off.  Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00What we seem to have learned is that somebody, one of the two pilots, selected the engine

00:07switches, the fuel control switches, to off shortly after takeoff. The other pilot said

00:17why have you done that? The other one said I haven't and then somebody instantly reset them

00:24to run again in the correct position. The engines had started to run down. They then started to

00:34recover due to the reselection to the correct position but sadly the altitude was so low that

00:41they didn't have a chance to recover before the aircraft crashed. The first officer, some people

00:51call the co-pilot, was flying the handling pilot for the takeoff and everything seemed to

00:58function perfectly all right until somebody switched the engines off.

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