A preliminary finding into last month’s Air India plane crash has suggested the aircraft’s fuel control switches were turned off, starving the engines of fuel and causing a loss of engine thrust shortly after takeoff.

Investigators are scrutinising Captain Sumeet Sabharwal's medical records in the probe into the Air India crash. Details have been making the rounds online.

An Air India executive is still urging its staff not to jump to any conclusions as the investigation into the crash that killed 260 people last month continues. A preliminary report into the June crash found that the plane's fuel control switches had been flipped off one by one.

International airlines from South Korea and India are preparing to inspect its Boeing fleets following findings from the Air India crash investigation.

A small plane carrying four people collided with a tree about a mile away from the airport.