The US Federal Aviation Administration has issued a notice to its international counterparts that fuel control switches in Boeing aeroplanes like the Dreamliner involved in last month’s fatal Air India crash do not pose a safety issue.
The FAA’s notice to foreign civil aviation authorities followed a preliminary report by India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau that the engines on Air India Flight 171 briefly cut off shortly after take-off on June 12.
Switches controlling fuel flow to the jet’s two engines had been moved from “run” to the “cut-off” position, hampering the thrust of the plane, the AAIB report said.
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