An examination by aircraft manufacturer Boeing did not find any abnormalities in the fuel control switch of an Air India 787 Dreamliner plane, the Union government told Parliament on Monday, after the airline’s pilots on a London-Bengaluru flight flagged a possible defect in February.
The aircraft was grounded after the crew reported that the left fuel control switch slipped from “run” to “cut off” when pushed slightly and did not lock in the selected position.
Fuel control switches have also been under scrutiny following the June 2025 crash of Air India flight AI171 in Ahmedabad.
The Boeing 787-8 aircraft, which was en route to London’s Gatwick airport from Ahmedabad, crashed 33 seconds after taking off on June 12, 2025. There were 242 persons aboard the aircraft. One passenger survived with impact injuries. Nineteen persons were killed on the ground after the aircraft crashed into the hostel building of the BJ Medical College and Hospital in Ahmedabad.
The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, which is investigating the crash, found in its preliminary report in July 2025, that moments after the aircraft took off, its fuel control switches transitioned from “run” to “cut off” within a second of each other, because of which both engines shut down.
The report said that one of the pilots could be heard on the cockpit voice recorder asking...
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