Investigation Report Sheds Light on Air India Crash That Claimed 260 Lives

The preliminary report into the devastating Air India crash that killed 260 people including 19 on the ground has revealed a shocking and deeply disturbing detail: just seconds after takeoff, someone in the cockpit manually activated the fuel cut-off switches, shutting off both engines on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and sending the aircraft plummeting into a residential building in Ahmedabad, India, on June 12.

The crash has left aviation experts and investigators rattled, not because of what failed but because of what was deliberately done.

According to the report, cockpit voice recordings captured one pilot asking the other, “Why did you do the cut-off?” The chilling part? The second pilot reportedly responded that he didn’t. Yet both engines were switched from “run” to “cut-off” a move not possible to do by accident, according to retired Delta captain and aerospace engineer Ira Astrachan.

“There is no physical way to move the switches from one position to the other by simply pushing them up or down like a typical household light switch,” Astrachan told The Daily Wire. “You need two fingers and a thumb.”

Key findings from the report:

• The plane lost all engine power within 30 seconds of takeoff.

• The cut-off switch was activated manually a move normally performed after landing, not mid-climb.

• The co-pilot, 32-year-old Clive Kunder, was at the controls during takeoff, while the captain, 56-year-old Sumeet Sabharwal, monitored the flight.

• The pilots attempted to restart the engines, but it’s unclear if either engine recovered before the crash.

• No mechanical failures have been identified. The aircraft was fully functional.

The only survivor, 40-year-old Viswash Kumar Ramesh, described waking up in a horror scene. “There was no warning… I saw bodies ripped apart,” he told local reporters.

This tragedy raises serious, haunting questions. Who flipped those switches? And why?

Astrachan, reflecting standard U.S. flight protocols, emphasized that even in an emergency, pilots are trained to climb to 1,000 feet before handling any system failures. Shutting off engines below that altitude without any mechanical issue is not just improper it's catastrophic.

Despite growing public suspicion, Air India CEO Campbell Wilson urged restraint, warning against speculation and media-driven theories. But with mechanical failure now ruled out, attention is sharply focused on the two men in the cockpit.

This crash is already being described as one of the most chilling air disasters in recent history, not because of something that failed, but because something was deliberately shut off with 260 lives at stake.

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