India will send to the United States a Boeing 787 fuel power switch to be inspected. The switches of both engines had been placed almost simultaneously in the “off” position before the crash of an Air India flight that killed 260 people in June 2025.
Indian civil aviation will send the Boeing 787 fuel power switch to the United States for inspection, after a problem following a fatal Air India crash, the government announced on Tuesday night.
On February 2, the airline had grounded a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft that was supposed to fly from London’s Heathrow Airport to Bangalore, India, after a pilot reported a possible fault with the element.
Then, on June 12, 2025, a similar aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad Airport in western India, killing 241 of the 242 people on board and 19 on the ground: The Indian Directorate General of Civil Aviation revealed that the same switches, for both engines, had been almost simultaneously placed in the “off” position just after takeoff.
Pilot error or technical incident?
Investigators, set to release their final report by June, did not specify the cause of the switches being turned off – whether it was a pilot error or a technical malfunction.
After the February report, Air India conducted tests not only on the grounded aircraft but also on its fleet of 787s, as recommended by Boeing. According to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the inspection concluded that the switch in question “was mechanically functioning as per its design.”
Indian civil aviation has ordered the element to be inspected at the original manufacturer’s facilities in the presence of multiple representatives.
