A cockpit recording of dialogue between pilots supports the view the captain cut the flow of fuel to the plane's engines, said a source briefed on U.S. officials' early assessment of evidence.

The deadly Air India crash last month has renewed a decades-old debate in the aviation industry over installing video cameras monitoring airline pilot actions to complement the cockpit voice and flight data recorders already used by accident investigators.

AIR INDIA’S captain made a haunting plea as he left home on the day of the deadly crash. Sumeet Sabharwal, 56, gave an eerie message to a security guard at his Mumbai apartment complex

The first officer asked the more experienced captain why he moved the switches to the "cutoff" position after it climbed off the runway, the report said.

The report and India’s inspection order referred to an advisory from the Federal Aviation Administration in 2018 that recommended that carriers using Boeing models, including the 787, inspect the locking mechanism of the fuel control switches to ensure they could not be moved accidentally.

THE deadly Air India crash may have been the result of a human act inside the cockpit, a top aviation expert has warned. Captain Steve Scheibner suggested there was a “human hand”