According to the WSJ report citing the audio recording, the first officer, expressing surprise, asked the senior pilot why he moved the switches to ‘cutoff’. He, then, panicked.

A cockpit recording has ignited global controversy after revealing that the fuel switches on Air India Flight 171 may have been manually turned off mid-air—raising questions over whether a respected captain made a fatal error that led to the deaths of 260

The deadly Air India crash has renewed a decades-old debate in the aviation industry over installing video cameras to monitor airline pilot actions.