New Air India Crash Details As US Media Accesses Pilots' Last Conversation
A cockpit recording of the last conversation between the two pilots of the Air India flight that crashed last month in Gujarat's Ahmedabad indicates that the Captain cut off the fuel to the plane's engine, according to a US media report.
The report in the Wall Street Journal says the first officer flying the Boeing 787 Dreamliner asked the more-experienced Captain why he moved the switches to the "cutoff" position, shortly after the flight took off from the runway. The first officer then expressed panic, while the Captain remained calm, the report says.
