Watch: Role of plane fuel switches explained
The preliminary report into the Air India crash in June has found that both fuel control switches, which are used to turn the engines off, were at one point moved to the cut-off position.
The BBC's International business correspondent Theo Leggett explains the role of the switches and how shifting them is a two-stage process.
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