US EditionAmid Air India probe, US FAA, Boeing notify fuel switch locks are safe, document, sources say
AHMEDABAD, INDIA, JUL 13 – The FAA and Boeing maintain the fuel cutoff switch locking mechanism is safe despite the crash killing 260 people, with no airworthiness directive planned, FAA said on July 11.
- The US FAA and Boeing have privately notified that the fuel switch locks on Boeing planes are safe, according to a document and sources.
- The preliminary investigation report into the Boeing 787-8 crash raised questions about the fuel cutoff switches, but did not find an unsafe condition warranting an airworthiness directive.
- ALPA India called for a fair and fact-based inquiry, and to be made part of the probe after the report referred to a potential equipment malfunction related to a 2018 FAA advisory.
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'Fuel Switch Locks Are Safe': Boeing, US Regulator Push Back Amid Air India Plane Crash Probe
The FAA endorsed this assessment, issuing a Continued Airworthiness Notification stating the fuel control switch design doesn't pose an unsafe condition warranting action on any Boeing model.
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Air India crash probe: Despite AAIB alarm, FAA and Boeing say fuel switch locks safe, no action needed
After India’s crash probe revealed that both fuel switches on the Boeing 787 flipped to “cutoff” shortly after takeoff, raising questions about equipment failure, US FAA and Boeing have assured that the aircraft’s fuel switch locking system is safe and doesn’t require regulatory action.
·New Delhi, India
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