A black-box recording of their conversation suggests that it was the captain, Sumeet Sabharwal, who turned off the switches, according to sources close to the US side of the probe.

The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) on Thursday asked the government to reassess possible technical misinterpretation or mechanical faults in Air India's Boeing 787-8 plane that crashed last month ...

Captain Sumeet Sabharwal - the 56-year-old veteran at the controls - switched the plane's fuel control switches to “cut-off” just moments after liftoff.

In its latest report on the AI 171 crash investigation, WSJ said that details from the ill-fated Boeing 787-8 aircraft's ...

A veteran pilot and aviation consultant has suggested that investigators should also focus on a possible fault in flight ...

CS Randhawa, the FIP chief, slammed the WSJ report, pointing out that the preliminary probe report released last week did not ...

Following the AAIB's preliminary report into the Air India AI 171 plane crash on 12 June 2025, social media users shared ...

The preliminary report said the fuel switches had switched from run to cutoff a second apart just after takeoff, but ...

This statement followed a Reuters report, which cited the Wall Street Journal, claiming that a cockpit recording of dialogue between the two pilots of the Air India flight that crashed last month ...

The wreckage of the plane was located on Thursday afternoon by a rescue helicopter, with NSW Police yet to provide an update on the pilot.

The Federation of Indian Pilots said that the report lacks comprehensive data and relies on cockpit recordings, “suggesting ...

The senior pilot was the one who turned off switches that controlled fuel flowing to the plane’s engines, a black box ...