A preliminary report released last week included detail about the fuel, saying that the fuel to the plane's engines appeared to have been shut off.

The United States National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy said on Friday that recent media reports on the crash of an Air India Boeing Dreamliner that killed 260 people were premature and speculative.

Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu has strongly criticized Western media for premature and speculative reporting on the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, which claimed 260 lives. The AAIB has also urged media outlets to wait for the final investigation report before drawing conclusions.