Dialogue heard on a cockpit voice recording indicates that the captain of the Air India flight that crashed in June, killing 260 people, may have turned off the fuel just after takeoff, prompting the first officer to panic, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited sources familiar with U.S. official's early assessment.

A preliminary report from India's probe into last month's deadly Air India crash has ruled out some possibilities while raising new ones - with the focus on a pair of switches that cut off the engine...