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Fuel control switches have been at the focus of the investigation into the fatal crash of another Air India Boeing 787 jet—VT-ANB—in Ahmedabad in June last year.
Both engines of Air India VT-ANB were starved after fuel control switches transitioned to CUTOFF within seconds.
KEY POINTS
- A fleet-wide fuel control switch inspection found no abnormality on Air India's Boeing 787 aircraft.
- DGCA officials will travel to the US to witness fuel control switch panel testing from VT-ANX.
- The FAA recommended, but did not mandate, fuel switch inspections in 2018; most airlines, including Air India, delayed action.
- Preliminary reports do not confirm whether pilots manually moved the switches during the AI-171 crash.
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