An analysis of the cockpit voice recorder from the Air India flight that crashed in Ahmedabad last month reportedly showed the younger co-pilot asking the captain why he had turned off the fuel switches.

A new report suggests the co-pilot officer on the doomed Air India flight thought the captain may have turned off the plane’s fuel switches shortly before the fatal crash.

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FEARS are mounting that the doomed Air India flight was a pilot suicide – as an aviation expert claimed there was a vanishingly small chance the fuel was cut by accident. Ex-pilot Terry