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What are fuel switches and why do they matter in the Air India crash? - New clues into the plane crash reveal that the fuel switches were almost simultaneously flipped from ‘Run’ to ‘Cutoff’ just afte ...
The report released by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau a month after the 12 June crash found that three seconds after taking off, the plane’s fuel switches almost simultaneously flipped ...
Just a month before an Air India Boeing 787-8 crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad, the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) had raised red flags about a potential safety issue involving the ...
Weeks after the fatal Air India Ahmedabad plane crash that killed 260 people, India’s civil aviation regulator has issued a directive to all airlines to inspect the fuel switch locking mechanism on ...
The notice dated May 15 asked airlines to check if the fuel shutoff valve required replacement. The notice mentioned that the ...