Airlines in India Are Required to Examine Boeing Aircraft Types Following a Crash
Days after an investigation into last month’s Air India jet tragedy revealed that the fuel control switches were flicked off, depriving both engines of gasoline, India’s aviation authority asked airlines running a number of Boeing models to inspect the switches on Monday.
The instruction would apply to Boeing 787 Dreamliners and some Boeing 737 models, according to India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation. Airlines are required to finish inspections and provide the regulator with their findings by July 21.
According to a preliminary study on the Air India disaster that killed 260 people in Ahmedabad, northwest India, the switches shut off the gasoline flow to both engines within a second of one another.
The investigation, which was made public last week, made no recommendations about the cause of the jet disaster. Additionally, it did not explain how the switches may have changed throughout the flight from the run position to the cutoff. Fuel flow to the aircraft’s engines is enabled and stopped by the movement of the fuel control switches.
A 2018 recommendation from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration advising airlines using Boeing models to check the locking function of fuel cutoff switches was included in the report published by India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau.
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