The flight took off at 1:37 pm after receiving take-off clearance. The flight was just 32 seconds in the air, before it eventually crashed.

According to the Air India flight recorder, a few seconds after takeoff, switches for both engines transitioned to cutoff from run one after another with a time gap of one second. As a result, the engines began to lose power. Seconds later, the switches flipped back to run, according to the preliminary report.

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