Overview

• The AAIB’s preliminary report confirmed both fuel control switches moved to the cutoff position seconds after takeoff but stopped short of assigning blame.
• Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg articles, based on early US official assessments, suggested Captain Sumeet Sabharwal may have shut off fuel supply, a claim the AAIB has called unverified.
• Federation of Indian Pilots and ALPA-India protested their exclusion from the probe and urged against premature attribution of fault to the crew.
• Air India completed DGCA-mandated inspections of fuel switch locking mechanisms on its entire Boeing 787 fleet and found no mechanical issues.
• Investigators continue to analyze cockpit voice recordings, flight data logs and prior technical snags such as a stabilizer position transducer defect to determine if electrical or software failures were involved.