On the afternoon of June 12, 2025, Flight AI 171 surged down the runway at Ahmedabad, a Boeing 787‑8 Dreamliner lifting off into an innocuous blue sky. Two minutes later, it plunged into a medical college hostel. On board, 242 souls. Survivors: one. Ground casualties: 19. The dead numbered 260. Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, the sole survivor, later described the engine “stalling mid‑air” before the impact—an echo of a nightmare from which no one else awakened.
A month later, on July 11, India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau issued a terse fifteen‑page preliminary report. It quietly detonated a bombshell: mere seconds into flight, both engine fuel‑control switches clicked from RUN to CUTOFF—simultaneously cutting fuel to the GE GEnx‑1B engines
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