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Why were fuel switches in 'cutoff' position?

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July 14, 2025

Fuel switches: What you need to know

- HT Correspondent

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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AI carbon footprint equals 8% of global aviation emissions

The boom in artificial intelligence in 2025 led to as much carbon dioxide (CO2) being released into the atmosphere as New York City does annually, according to a new study, The Guardian reported.

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Think long term on Delhi pollution

The Supreme Court is right; CAQM must go beyond reactive measures to deal with NCR's toxic air

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In Bondi attack, echoes of age-old anti-Semitism

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'BENGAL JOB SCHEME TO BE NAMED AFTER MAHATMA': CM

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said that her government would rename its job guarantee programme after Mahatma Gandhi, in an announcement coming ona day the Lok Sabha passed a bill that seeks to replace the two-decadeold Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA.)

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Need urgent roll-out of UPI market-share caps

here isa warning for all trusted systems in India in Indigo's recent operational meltdown.

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LAWYER TOLD TRUMP LEGALITY OF THIRD TERM IS UNCLEAR: REPORT

Retired Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz told President Donald Trump the U.S. Constitution was not clear about whether he could serve a third term, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

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The end of MGNREGS

VB-G RAM G's funding and administrative structure should strengthen and expand rural jobs, not weaken the scheme

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America-first compass for new security strategy

The US's new National Security Strategy signals a “hands-off” approach towards matters that are not of American interests. All tools will be used to ensure the US's primacy remains intact

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