Following the Air India AI-171 accident investigation, Etihad Airways issued an engineering work order to inspect the fuel control switch locking mechanism on one of its Boeing 787 aircraft. This ...

Air India states it has found no issues with the fuel-control switch locking mechanisms on its Boeing 787 fleet, after inspections prompted by the crash at Ahmedabad last month. Preliminary findings ...

An Etihad Airways flight returned to Abu Dhabi shortly after takeoff. The airline then inspected the aircraft's fuel control switch. This followed a report on an Air India accident. The report ...

New Delhi: Both Boeing and Honeywell knew that the fuel lock system on the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner that was delivered to India was “faulty”. This defect allowed an inadvertent cutoff of fuel supply ...

Soon after India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) released the preliminary report into the AI 171 accident on July 12, An Etihad Airways Boeing 787 aircraft underwent a fuel control ...

Amid the growing furor over the fuel switch locks in the AIB report on the Air India Dreamliner crash, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has now asked all Indian carriers to conduct ...

The Ministry of Civil Aviation released a preliminary report on Saturday probing last month’s deadly Air India crash, shedding light on a little-known issue: the fuel control switch locking system.

The official also said that all the Boeing 787-8 aircraft have undergone Throttle Control Module (TCM) replacement as per the Boeing maintenance schedule Air India on Wednesday completed the ...

The update comes amid heightened scrutiny following the AI171 crash in Ahmedabad on June 12, which claimed 260 lives, including 19 on the ground, after the aircraft slammed into a hospital building.

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