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The investigation into last month's deadly Air India crash is reportedly centering
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on whether fuel switches on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner function properly. A preliminary report on the crash of Flight 171 is expected to be released Friday
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Both the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg reported preliminary findings suggest the
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switches that control the fuel supply to the engines were turned off. However
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it remains unclear whether this was intentional or accidental. John Cox, the chief executive of Safety Operations Systems, told Bloomberg
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if you move those switches from run to cutoff, those engines will stop running in literally seconds
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He added the possibility of an unintentional switch movement cannot be ruled out
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After takeoff, the plane's landing gear was never retracted, and the plane quickly began to lose thrust before crashing into a student hostel near the airport, causing a huge explosion
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Before impact, a mayday call was made by one of the pilots. Of the 242 people on board, only one passenger survived. Accidental shutdowns have occurred in
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the past. In the 1980s, for example, a Delta Airlines pilot mistakenly turned off both engines
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of a Boeing 767 while at cruising altitude, but was able to restart them without incident
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