Fuel control switches for the engines of an Air India flight that crashed last month were moved from the “run” to the “cutoff” position moments before impact, starving both engines of fuel, a preliminary investigation report said early Saturday.

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

The aircraft reached a peak airspeed of 180 knots moments after takeoff but began losing altitude even before it could clear the airport's perimeter wall. CCTV footage captured the deployment of the Ram Air Turbine,