The report highlights a critical finding: two engine fuel control switches transitioned to 'CUTOFF' moments after lift-off. A perplexing recorded exchange between pilots, where one asks about the fuel cut-off and the other denies it,

Only one passenger survived the crash, which happened minutes after liftoff from the Ahmedabad airport in western India

The troubling cockpit dialogue revealed in a preliminary report into the June 12 crash of Air India flight 171 – which killed all but one of the 242 passengers on board – is likely to haunt investigators,