New Details In Air India Crash Probe Shift Focus To Planes Captain . . . New Details In Air India Crash Probe Shift Focus To Plane's Captain, WSJ Reports The first officer asked the more experienced captain why he moved the switches to the "cutoff" position after it climbed off the runway, the report said
Ahmedabad plane crash probe: New details shift focus to senior pilot The focus in the Air India Flight 171 crash from Ahmedabad to Gatwick, London, has now shifted to the pilots after the cockpit recording recovered from the black box indicates that it was the captain who turned off the fuel switches to the plane's engine, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday