As it turns out, airplanes will definitely fall from the sky when they have no fuel.
From Fox Business: Recovered cockpit voice recordings from last month’s deadly Air India crash reveal a moment of confusion between the pilots after the aircraft’s engines abruptly lost fuel just seconds after takeoff.
The engines of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner – which crashed and caused the world’s deadliest aviation accident in a decade – were starved of fuel when the engine cutoff switches suddenly flipped mid-flight, according to a preliminary report released Saturday by India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB).
The London-bound jetliner began crashing less than a minute after taking off on June 12 from Ahmedabad airport in western India, killing a total of 260 people and miraculously leaving one British national as the sole survivor.
According to the report, one pilot is heard on the cockpit voice recorder asking the other “why did he cutoff,” to which the other responded that “he did not do so.” The voices were not attributed to either pilot Captain Sumeet Sabharwal or co-pilot Clive Kundar.
Investigators have concluded that shortly after takeoff, the fuel control switches were simultaneously switched from “run” to “cutoff” for some unknown reason.
When the error was discovered, the pilots must have switched it back, as both fuel switches were found in the “on” position at the crash site. However, it apparently was already too late to reverse the plane’s descent.
A preliminary report on last month’s Air India crash, which killed 260 people, says fuel to the engines was cut just seconds after takeoff. @ABC News contributor and former pilot John Nance breaks down the findings. pic.twitter.com/0F6fEABF4U
— ABC News Live (@ABCNewsLive) July 11, 2025
Retired Air Force pilot Buzz Patterson shared a photo to demonstrate the fuel switches.
Looks like one of the Air India pilots shut off both engines before their crash. pic.twitter.com/RYm7hjpRuL
— Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson) July 12, 2025
Other X users are pointing out that there is a safety feature on the fuel switches which prevents them from being accidentally bumped. Instead, the pilots must pull out on the switch and then move it down to cut off the fuel.
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Doomed Air India flight lost engine fuel mid-flight, cockpit chaos revealed in report https://t.co/4ifquqoAi9
— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) July 12, 2025
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