<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>India's Aircraft Accident Investigation bureau has released a preliminary report on the </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/india-plane-crash-air-india-flight-bound-for-london-crashes-in-ahmedabad/6806fd41-e9da-4bb5-949b-29388bec109d" rel="" target="_blank" title=" Air India flight that crashed"><span>Air India flight that crashed</span></a><span> in June.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The London-bound plane had barely left the runway at Ahmedabad airport before it careened back to earth. Everyone on board was killed, </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/sole-survivor-air-india-plane-crash-vishwash-kumar-ramesh-speaks-of-his-survival/70d80693-dbc6-4736-b710-b8dd0862ca04" rel="" target="_blank" title="except for one passenger."><span>except for one passenger.</span></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>According to the report obtained by CNN, the control switches in the cockpit of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner had been flipped, resulting in engine problems.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/air-india-plane-crash-everything-we-know-miraculous-survival-passenger-vishwash-kumar-ramesh/126debf7-2bd5-4ebc-9e50-a0c7f93bd270"><strong><span>Everything we know about the 'miraculous' survival of Air India passenger</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The aircraft had reached an airspeed of 180 knots when both engines' fuel cutoff switches were "transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF position one after another with a time gap of 01 sec," per the report.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"In the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why did he cutoff. The other pilot responded that he did not do so," the report reads.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In addition to those on board, a number of people on the ground were killed when the plane crashed into the BJ Medical College and Hospital hostel.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/air-india-engine-fuel-switches-flipped-to-cut-off-during-deadly-air-india-crash-preliminary-report-says/dd166339-063b-4220-bdc8-63df4627fb22" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Air India flight, AI171, took off from Ahmedabad's Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in India's western state of Gujarat on June 12.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/denver-museum-of-nature-and-science-makes-a-find-deep-under-own-car-park-usa/0ee03c43-1f7c-470b-b7e6-8c822a1dd7b0"><strong><span>A US dinosaur museum makes a find deep under own parking lot</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner was headed to London Gatwick, and scheduled to land at 6.25pm local time.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Air India had said 242 passengers and crew members were on board. That included 169 Indian nationals, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese and one Canadian.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><span>More to come... </span></em></div></div>