India, Feb. 3 -- Air India has announced that it will reinspect the fuel control switches on its Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet following a pilot's report of a potential defect on one aircraft. The move ...

India’s government told Parliament this week that manufacturer-level testing found no abnormality in the locking mechanism of a Boeing 787 fuel-control switch, but the result does not determine what ...

Some 260 people were killed when an Air India Boeing 787 crashed into a neighbourhood near Ahmedabad airport on June 14 – Copyright AFP/File DIBYANGSHU SARKAR Air ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The preliminary report into Air India Flight 171 said the fuel was cut off to both engines. Fuel control switches are designed to ...

OSHKOSH, Wisconsin (Reuters) -The head of the Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday the fatal crash last month of an Air India Boeing 787 jet does not appear to have been caused by a ...

Investigators of the fatal accident will need to consider not only scenarios of inadvertent or deliberate pilot action, but also the possibility that neither crew member touched the fuel cut-off ...

Indian authorities have yet to release a final report into the crash of a 787 shortly after takeoff in June – Copyright AFP/File Raul ARBOLEDA, SAUL LOEB Air India ...

(Reuters) – Air India said yesterday it has completed precautionary inspections of the fuel control switch locking mechanism on all its Boeing BA.N 787 and 737 aircraft, with no issues detected. The ...

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said July 24 that the agency is confident there was no mechanical issue with Boeing’s fuel control system following a crash near Ahmedabad in June ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Boeing Co. (NYSE:BA) have both said that the fuel switch locks on the 787-Dreamliner aircraft are safe in the aftermath of the Air India crash in India’s ...

India’s civil aviation regulator is advising Air India to circulate recommended Boeing procedures for operating fuel cut-off switches on the 787, after crew concerns emerged during a London ...

Air India completed preliminary inspections of the locking mechanism on the fuel control switches in all of its Boeing (NYSE:BA) 787 aircraft and found "no issues," Indian broadcaster NDTV reported ...