NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy's comments came amid an ongoing row over The Wall Street Journal's unverified and selective reporting regarding a pilot’s alleged role in the Air India Flight 171 crash that killed 260 people.

Following the Wall Street Journal report on the Air India AI171 crash, aviation expert Sanjay Lazar on Thursday expressed concern over the leak of investigation details in the United States. He pointed out that while the American report claims the flight commander may have switched off the fuel controls,

A cockpit recording of dialogue between the two pilots of the Air India flight that crashed last month indicates the captain cut the flow of fuel to the Boeing 787 jet's engines, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

Campbell Wilson told staff in a memo that the pilots had passed a mandatory preflight breathalyzer test.