CNN
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An official report on the world’s deadliest aviation accident in a decade has answered one key question – but raised others.
Air India flight AI171 had barely left the runway last month when it lost momentum and crashed in a densely populated area of India’s western city of Ahmedabad, killing all but one of the 242 people on board and 19 others on the ground.
Now, a preliminary report by India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has revealed that fuel supply to both engines was cut in the crucial minutes as the aircraft was ascending.
The plane’s “black box,” its flight data recorder, showed that the aircraft had…
