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I'm Paul Henley.
First, a preliminary report on the Air Air India crash, which killed 260 people last month,
has found that fuel was cut to the plane's engines just moments before it came down.
Investigators do not attribute blame but highlight confusion in the cockpit.
For more, our correspondent Akshina Shukla joins me from Mumbai.
Akshina, welcome.
What of a conversation or part of it first between pilot and co-pilot?
Well,
the audio from the cockpit that has been detailed in the report suggests that there was some bit of a surprise.
and a confusion in the cockpit itself.
With one of the pilots asking the other, did you cut off the fuel supply?
And the other one responding, no, I did not.
The report also clearly highlights that it was the fuel control switches that were turned from the run to the cutoff position,
cutting off the fuel supply to both the engines that led to the aircraft losing thrust.
What would have caused the fuel switches to turn to the cutoff position is something that is still in question and will still need to be investigated further.
And the cockpit voice recorder,
the discussion between the two pilots indicates that there was confusion in the cockpit also.