In the Boeing 787 cockpit, few controls are as heavily protected against accidental operation as the engine fuel switches. Multiple layers of mechanical safeguards guard against inadvertent movement ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New details about last month's Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, which killed 260 people, have emerged this week, shifting focus ...

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 ...

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) released a rejoinder on Tuesday regarding the purported malfunction of the fuel cut-off switch on Air India Boeing B787-8 aircraft VT-ANX, which was ...

Investigators may soon release preliminary information about the fatal Air India Boeing 787 crash that happened last month. Following guidelines from the International Civil Aviation Organization — a ...

While the Air India Boeing 787-8 crash inquiry has found that fuel control cut-off switches were activated almost as soon as the aircraft lifted off, the circumstances of the switches’ movement remain ...

Indian aviation officials are preparing to travel to Seattle to observe Boeing’s (BA) testing of a fuel-control switch module removed from an Air India 787 earlier this year, Reuters reported Tuesday, ...

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 ...

Indian authorities confirmed that fuel-control switches on an Air India flight that crashed in June had been turned off shortly after takeoff, but said they had been turned back on before impact. In a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW DELHI (AP) — Air India said Tuesday that ...

The preliminary report into Air India Flight 171 said the fuel was cut off to both engines. Fuel control switches are designed to be impossible to move accidentally. Airlines are checking locking ...