12 July Thirty days on from the crash, and after 16 days of analysing the black box data the initial report is released, as outlined under international aviation rules. It finds that the fuel control switches were moved to cut-off position moments before the plane crashed

The crash of Air India Flight 171 seconds after takeoff on June 12 killed all but one of the 242 people on board. An additional 29 people on the ground were also killed.