Civil aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu is expected to face several questions, particularly in the Rajya Sabha, where the ...

To be sure, the FAA at the time recommended, but did not mandate, an inspection of the locking feature of the fuel cutoff ...

New Delhi, Jul 14 (PTI) It was human error that led to the fuel switches being cut off before Air India's Boeing 787-8 plane crashed in Ahmedabad last month, and there also should have been more ...

The US aviation regulator has said fuel control switches in Boeing aeroplanes are safe, following their reported involvement ...

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Until the recent Ahmedabad crash, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner had maintained an impressive safety record, but it has not been free from controversy.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), back in 2018, had flagged the potential disengagement of the fuel control switch ...

Investigators of the fatal accident will need to consider not only scenarios of inadvertent or deliberate pilot action, but ...

The preliminary investigation into the crash of an Air India flight in June suggests the fuel supply to the engines was shut off shortly after takeoff—an act that surprised both pilots, according to ...

A preliminary report about the fatal Air India crash resurfaced a 2018 FAA notice about Boeing's engine fuel control switches ...

The move comes in the wake of the initial probe report by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) into the June ...

Preliminary report raises questions on fuel control switches, sparking controversy over investigation transparency.