A preliminary report released last week included detail about the fuel, saying that the fuel to the plane's engines appeared ...

While the fuel switches were placed back to RUN around 10 seconds later, it was too late for the aircraft at that point. It ...

India's civil aviation regulator has released a preliminary report indicating that both of the jet's fuel cutoff switches ...

Investigators later found that the aircraft’s software had mistakenly interpreted the plane as being on the ground, ...

Fuel control switches to the engines of the fatal Air India flight were moved from the “run” to the “cutoff” position moments ...

According to US aviation expert Mary Schiavo, a 2019 All Nippon Airways (ANA) flight in Japan experienced a similar issue, ...

The Air India airliner carrying 230 passengers and 12 crew members was on its way to the United Kingdom when it crashed into a building shortly after takeoff on June 12, killing all aboard, except for ...

It appears this transition may have happened due to technical malfunctioning of the system but AAIB will need more time to reach to this conclusion.

The switches sit underneath the throttle handles in the cockpit’s centre console, positioned where pilots’ hands naturally rest during critical flight phases.

The FADEC monitors sensors and based on the inputs received through other systems, it can adjust things like fuel flow and ...

Here are a few facts about the switches, their functions in the aircraft and their movements on the Air India flight. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The picture shows the position of the fuel cut off switch. Debris of Air India flight 171 is pictured after it crashed in a residential area near the airport in Ahmedabad.