Apparent gaps in AAIB’s preliminary report means that while a key factor in the disaster—cutting of the fuel supply—has been confirmed, not much else has. FAA’s insistence that the accident does not change its evaluation of the fuel switch problems counters the only switch-related technical issue discussed in the report.

India's aviation regulator has ordered the country's airlines to inspect fuel control switches in Boeing aeroplanes, after their reported involvement in a fatal Air India crash that killed 260 people in June.