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 cockpit recording suggests the captain may have shut off fuel switches before Air India Flight AI171 crashed, killing 260 people.

A black-box recording of dialogue between the Air India flight's two pilots indicates it was the captain who turned off switches that controlled fuel flowing to the plane's two engines, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday,

US President Donald Trump has said yet again that the US has a deal coming up with India but suggested that additional tariffs may still be imposed on the country.

India and the US have been locked in intense trade negotiations, aiming to reach an agreement before steep tariffs kick in.

The United States is very close to a trade deal with India, while an agreement could possibly be reached with Europe as well, but it is too soon to say whether a deal can be agreed with Canada, President Donald Trump said in an interview aired on Real America's Voice on Wednesday.