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I really don't see how this can plausibly be anything other than intentional. Shutting off these fuel switches as a mistake would be like turning off your car and putting the keys in your pocket instead of shifting. The switches could have failed, but both switches failing with a 1 second gap between them is incredibly unlikely, especially with the way they were designed. I also doubt it's a software issue where the state of the fuel pumps became disassociated from the state of the switches based on how the report mentions the switches themselves transitioning.

Edit: upon thinking about this more, I don't think accidentally turning off the switches is impossible, but it still seems too egregious of a mistake to be likely. In terms of a mechanical failure，I wonder if fuel flow ceased due to another issue and the crew had to toggle thrust. That also seems unlikely to me as the report mentions the transition of the switch state before power loss.

Well, reading the report, there seems to be some ambiguity. It’s unclear if the recorder is based off of the physical position of the fuel cutoff switches or off of a digital reading.

I have flown the 787. As for the switches themselves, they are in a detente and you have to pull them against a spring and over a notch to move them to the off position. It’s hard to imagine how they would be moved unintentionally, especially by these experienced pilots. The report says they were shut off within 1 second of each other.

One of the pilots asks the other why they shut off the switches, the other pilot denies it, and shortly afterwards they are turned back on but by then it’s too late.

So, I can see where the “murder/suicide” people are coming from, but it’s important to understand that this report is the preliminary report mandated by ICAO and is for informational purposes only. Only the final report will determine a probable cause for the accident, if it can be determined, and looking at the facts, it’s unlikely that they can come to a definite conclusion, since there is no video footage of the cockpit. If there was something wrong with the switches, they will be very lucky if they can still tell. If one of the pilots switched them off, it’s impossible to know which one and why, and who turned them back on (and if it was the same pilot after realizing a mistake).

I hate that people are immediately jumping to "oh one of the pilots was suicidal and wanted to do a murder/suicide"

This is the same shit, whenever something happens with a Boeing plane, they IMMEDIATELY blamed the pilots because they had dark skin. They did it with MCAS with the Ethiopian flight that crashed, and now they're doing it to the Indian pilots

The captain had 10,000 hours and the first officer had 3,400.

Sure it could have been an honest mistake but that's a lot of flight time under both their belts AND it was a Boeing and we all know their plane track record and what happens to whistleblowers.