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Why were fuel switches in 'cutoff' position?
Hindustan Times Rajasthan
|July 14, 2025
Fuel switches: What you need to know
In the Boeing 787 cockpit, few controls are as heavily protected against accidental operation as the engine fuel switches. Multiple layers of mechanical safeguards guard against inadvertent movement of these critical levers that can instantly cut power to a $200 million aircraft.
Those very switches lie at the heart of the Air India Flight 171 investigation, after preliminary findings revealed both moved from “RUN” to “CUTOFF” within one second of each other during takeoff, starving the engines of fuel and sealing the fate of 260 people.
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