Seconds after takeoff and before an Air India flight crashed last month, the fuel was cut off to both engines of the plane, investigators said on Friday, in a preliminary assessment of information from the aircraft’s voice and data recorder.

The Gatwick-bound Air India flight killed 260 people last month and now crash investigators have made claims as they probe what happened in Ahmedabad on the doomed plane

A preliminary report into the Air India crash that killed 260 people last month showed that seconds after taking off, the plane's engines fuel cutoff switches almost simultaneously flipped from run to cutoff,