'Why did you cut off?' pilot heard in voice recording of cockpit
One of the findings from the report outlines how a pilot could be heard asking the other pilot in a voice recording of the cockpit in the moments before the crash: why did you cut off?
The report says that both engine fuel cut off switches were turned to "cut-off" with a time delay.
Below is an excerpt of that finding from the preliminary report:
"The aircraft achieved the maximum recorded airspeed of 180 Knots IAS at about 08:08:42 UTC and immediately thereafter, the Engine 1 and Engine 2 fuel cutoff switches transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF position one after another with a time gap of 01 sec.
"The Engine N1 and N2 began to decrease from their take-off values as the fuel supply to the engines was cutoff.
"In the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why did he cutoff. The other pilot responded that he did not do so."