A cockpit recording of dialogue between the two pilots of the Air India flight that crashed last month supports the view that the captain cut the flow of fuel to the plane's engines, said a source briefed on U.

Union Civil Aviation Minister Rammohan Naidu has advised restraint amidst global speculation on the Air India crash in Ahmedabad. He stressed respecting the formal investigation process led by AAIB, which has decoded the black box locally for the first time.

With conclusive information hard to come by weeks after the fatal Air India crash, the aviation industry has shifted its focus to possible pilot error.