The report said that fuel was switched off to both engines within seconds of takeoff, and that the airplane started losing thrust before it had even crossed the airport’s perimeter.

Just seconds after take-off, both of the 12-year-old Boeing 787 Dreamliner's fuel-control switches abruptly moved to the "cut-off" position, starving the engines of fuel and triggering total power lo...

Both engine fuel control switches that, if pulled while in flight, cut power to the engines, transitioned from the “run” to “cutoff” settings as the plane took off, according to the report.