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Earlier this year, families of four victims killed in the Air India accident convicted the defective fuel switch for the incident of killing 260 people.
In the first trial filed in an accident in the US, family aircraft manufacturers are accusing Boeing and Honeywell, which made the switch responsible.
Air India Flight 171 left for London from Indian on 12 June Ahmedabad city In Boeing 787. A few seconds later, both engine fuel cutoff switches moved into the cutoff by the run, leading to a preliminary report by the Crash by India’s Air Accident Investigation Bureau of Investigation (AAIB).
Vadi, in a complaint filed on Tuesday in Delaware Superior Court, pointed to 2018 Federal aviation administration The advisor who recommended, but did not mandate, inspects the locking mechanism of several Boeing models, fuel cutoff switch, including 787 to ensure that it cannot be accidentally transferred.
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Forensic experts and officials of DGCA discovered evidence on the Air India Plain Crash Site in Ahmedabad, India on 13 June 2025. (Raju Shinde / Hindustan Times / Getty Image)
The preliminary report stated, “FAA released the Special Airworks Information Bulletin (SAIB) number NM -18-33 on December 17, 2018, about the possible disintegration of fuel control switch locking facility,” the initial report said.
The preliminary report of the AAIB states that Air India did not operate the suggested inspections, and the maintenance records showed that the throttle control module, including the fuel switch, was converted into the aircraft involved in the accident in 2019 and 2023.
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On June 12, 2025, the Air India Flight 171 has been depicted after crashed in a residential area near the airport in Ahmedabad. (Sam Panthaki / AFP / Getty Image)
The report stated that “all applicable airworthiness instructions and alert service bulletins were complied with aircraft as well as engines.”
The lawsuit suggests that the switches are at a place in the cockpit where they were more likely to unknowingly, which “effectively guarantee that the common cockpit activity may result in an unintentional fuel cutoff as a result of the general cockpit activity.”
This scrabb of UGC video footage shows the thick black smoke rising from a residential area after the flight 171 of Air India flight 171 in Ahmedabad on June 12, 2025. (Vijay Patani / AFP / Getty Image)
However, aviation safety experts told Reuters that they could not be flipped accidentally based on their location and design.
The AAIB report mentioned a cockpit voice recording, where a pilot asked the other why he cut the fuel and “the other pilot replied that he did not do so.”
| Langer | Security | Last | Change | Change % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B. A | Boeing Cum. | 215.55 | -0.04 |
-0.02% |
| Honorable | Honeywell International Inc. | 209.37 | -0.83 |
-0.39% |
Boeing referred Fox business for the report, but no additional comments.
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Honeywell did not immediately respond to a Fox Business inquiry.
Reuters contributed to this report.
