Air India completes check of all Boeing planes
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Air India said on Tuesday it has completed precautionary inspections of the fuel control switch locking mechanism on all its Boeing 787 and 737 aircraft, with no issues detected. The probe into the Air India crash that killed 241 of the 242 people on board and 19 on the ground is focused on the fuel control switches of the Boeing 787 jetliner,
Sumeet Sabharwal, 56, was the captain on the flight, while Clive Kunder, 32, was the co-pilot who was flying the plane. Together, the two pilots had more than 19,000 hours of flight experience - nearly half of it on the Boeing 787. Both had passed all pre-flight health checks before the crash.
Air India faced multiple incidents: an APU fire on flight AI 315 after landing in Delhi, a technical snag aborting flight AI 2403's takeoff, and precautionary inspections of Boeing fuel switches following a fatal crash investigation.
Air India says it has completed precautionary inspections on the locking mechanism of fuel control switches for select Boeing aircrafts.
Air India has completed precautionary inspections of the fuel control switch locking mechanisms across its Boeing 787 and 737 fleet, the airline confirmed on Tuesday, reporting no issues. This action follows an ongoing probe into a devastating Air India crash,
The U.S. assessment is not contained in a formal document, said a source, who emphasized the cause of the deadly crash remains under investigation.
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