Understanding how these switches function and their critical role in flight operations is essential for grasping the sequence of events that led to the disaster.

A series of critical events unfolded in the 32 seconds after the aircraft became airborne, lost thrust and started going down — from the fuel control switches transitioning to the ‘cutoff’ position to ...

The preliminary report from investigators probing the Air India crash that killed 260 people showed that seconds after takeoff, the Boeing 787 plane's engine fuel control switches were switched off ...