Learn about the location of fuel switches on a Boeing 787 and the possibility of accidental shutoff. Explore safety features and historical incidents.

In the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why he "did the cut-off", the other pilot replied ...

A preliminary report into the Air India crash last month, which left 260 people dead, indicates that fuel to the plane's engines was shut off just seconds after the plane lifted off. According to ...

Fuel to Air India plane was cut off moments before crash, investigation report says Officials inspect the site of the Air India plane crash on the roof of a building in Ahmedabad, India, last month.

T he Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau’s (AAIB)preliminary probe report on the fatal Air India plane accident has put the spotlight on the fuel switches of the crashed Boeing 787-8 and the ...

Investigators find crashed Air India jet had fuel switches cut off moments before crash A preliminary report into the Air India passenger plane crash that killed at least 270 people last month has ...

A series of critical events unfolded in the 32 seconds after the aircraft became airborne, lost thrust and started going down ...

Experts have since said it is not easy to “accidentally” cut off fuel switches. The 15-page document also includes a conversation between the pilots on the fuel controls before the crash.

The recorder would have indicated the alarm if there was one.” The act of accidentally cutting off the fuel supply is not unprecedented. A 1986 Flight Safety Foundation report shows that a United ...

A preliminary report into the Air India crash last month, which left at least 270 people dead, indicates that fuel to the plane's engines was shut off just seconds after the plane lifted off.

Preliminary findings into last month’s Air India plane crash suggest the aircraft’s fuel control switches were turned off, causing a loss of engine thrust shortly after takeoff Nation & World ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Fuel control switches for the engines of an Air India flight that crashed last month were moved from the “run” to the “cutoff” position moments before impact, starving ...