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The families of four victims who died in an Air India -Crash earlier this year blame defective fuel switches of the incident in which 260 people were killed.
In the first lawsuit that was tightened in the US about the crash, the Families Airplane Maker Boeing and Honeywell, who made the switches, accuses to be responsible.
Air India Flight 171 left for London from the Indian on June 12 City of Ahmedabad In a Boeing 787. Only a few seconds later, both motor fuel switches from Run to closing were moved, which causes dual engine FlameOut, according to the provisional report of the crash by India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB).
The claimants, in a complaint submitted on Tuesday in Delaware Superior Court, point to an advice from Federal Aviation Administration 2018 that operators of different Boeing models, including the 787, did not set up, but not imposed, the locking mechanism of the fuel switches to ensure that it could not be accidentally could be accidentally.
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On 13 June 2025, forensic experts and DGCA officials searched for evidence on Air India Plane Crash site in Ahmedabad, India. (Raju Shinde / Hindustan Times / Getty images)
“De FAA published special airworthiness information bulletin (SAAB) on December 17, 2018.
The provisional report from AAIB stated that Air India had not carried out the proposed inspections, and that maintenance records demonstrated that the gas control module, which includes the fuel switches, was replaced in 2019 and 2023 on the aircraft involved in the crash.
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The back of Air India Flight 171 is depicted on the site after crashing on 12 June 2025 in a residential area near the airport in Ahmedabad. (Sam Panthhaky / AFP / Getty images)
The report noted that “all applicable airworthiness guidelines and warning service bulletins were complied with both the aircraft and the engines.”
The lawsuit claims that the switches are in a place in the cockpit where they were previously unintentionally pushed, which “effectively guaranteed that normal cockpit activity can lead to unintended fuel closing.”
This Screengrab from UGC video images shows thick black smoke rising from a residential area after Air India Flight 171 on June 12, 2025 crashed in Ahmedabad. (Vijay Patani / AFP / Getty images)
However, Aviation Safety Experts said Reuters that they could not be accidentally reversed on the basis of their location and design.
The AAIB report mentioned a cockpit stamp in which one pilot asked the other why he cut off the fuel and “the other pilot replied that he didn’t.”
| Ticker | Security | Last | Change | Change % |
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| Ba | The Boeing Co. | 215.12 | +0.52 |
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| Hung | Honeywell International Inc. | 213.19 | +1.51 |
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Reuters has contributed to this report.
