Boeing 787

Preliminary report says fuel switches were cut off before Air India Boeing 787 crash

Indian investigators determined the Boeing 787 Dreamliner was properly configured and lifted off normally. But three seconds after takeoff, the engines' fuel switches were cut off.

What led the Boeing 787 Dreamliner to crash in India with 242 people aboard?

"It just appears to me that the airplane is unable to climb," former NTSB investigator Jeff Guzzetti tells NPR. Several explanations could account for that, the aviation expert says.