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GE Aerospace is addressing aviation's constrained supply chain with its proprietary FLIGHT DECK lean operating model. This initiative has already achieved significant improvements, including a 50% reduction in LEAP engine test cycle times and a 26% increase in supplier material input. The company is actively collaborating with Indian manufacturers and suppliers to mitigate these industry-wide challenges. The overall supply chain situation in the aviation industry is constrained and GE Aerospace ...Read More >
AHMEDABAD, India - Air India Flight 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, vanished from the skies above Ahmedabad and crashed into a residential neighbourhood just seconds after takeoff on June 12, 2025. With 260 lives lost, including 241 people on board and 19 on the ground, questions continue to surround what went wrong in those brief, chaotic moments. The latest findings from India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) reveal that both engines lost power after the fuel control switches w ...Read More >
New Delhi: Air India replaced the Throttle Control Module (TCM) of the crashed Boeing 787-8 plane twice in the last six years following a directive from Boeing in 2019, according to sources. TCM includes fuel control switches, which have come to focus in the ongoing probe into the fatal crash as these switches were cut off immediately after takeoff of the ill-fated London-bound Dreamliner VT-ANB that crashed in Ahmedabad June 12. The replacement of the TCM twice -- in 2019 and 2023 -- was ment ...Read More >
MUMBAI: Investigation into the Air India flight AI171 crash in Ahmedabad has revealed an unsettling detail. Three seconds after take-off, fuel supply to both engines of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner was cut off, either by a faulty fuel supply switch or manually by one of the two pilots. The report is ambiguous on what starved the engines. But it referred to a 2018 safety bulletin that instructed airlines to look out for a possible mechanical fault with the fuel control switches, which could cut off ...Read More >
Bhopal: Nabha, the eight-year-old Namibian cheetah in the Kuno national park (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday succumbed to injuries that she had sustained while hunting. She had been under treatment for a week for her injuries, KNP field director Uttam Kumar Sharma told this newspaper. "Nabha got badly injured a week back probably during a hunting attempt inside her soft release boma (large enclosure). She had fractures in both ulna (bone in the foreleg) and fibula (smaller of the two outer ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, 12 Jul: Seconds before Air India flight 171 crashed while ascending from Ahmedabad, the fuel control switches of both its engines were cut off, a preliminary investigation report said on Saturday, suggesting a catastrophic pilot error in the cockpit of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The Airlines Pilots Association of India raised the issue with the report, saying the investigation is "shrouded in secrecy," appears to be biased against the pilot and has come to a conclusion hastily. A 15 ...Read More >
New Delhi/ Mumbai, Jul 12 (PTI) The preliminary probe report on the fatal Air India aircraft crash has turned the spotlight on the action of pilots, while the absence of any recommendation for Boeing 787-8 operators seems to have left several questions unanswered as the investigation progresses, experts said on Saturday. Switches that feed fuel into the aircraft's engines being cut off within a gap of one second, subsequent loss of thrust and altitude before crashing into a building in Ahmedaba ...Read More >
New Delhi: The preliminary report into the tragic crash of Air India Flight 171, marking the first fatal disaster involving a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, offers technical details, a cockpit exchange, and a timeline that lasted barely 30 seconds after takeoff. But for all its clarity on what happened, what remains unclear, and increasingly questioned, is why Boeing's aircraft systems have not come under immediate scrutiny. In fact, the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) explicitly states: ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 12: Fuel control switches of the Air India plane were cut off and later turned on before it crashed in Ahmedabad on June 12, killing 260 people, according to the preliminary report by Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB). The Bureau also noted that there is no recommended action for now for the operators of Boeing 787-8 operators. Releasing its 15-page report, a month after the fatal plane accident that happened in around 30 seconds after lift-off, the AAIB, on Saturda ...Read More >
Guwahati: A preliminary investigation report into the crash of Air India's Boeing 787-8 aircraft on June 12 in Ahmedabad has revealed that both engines shut down moments after take-off due to a shift in the fuel control switches. The incident claimed the lives of at least 260 people. Ready for a challenge? Click here to take our quiz and show off your knowledge! According to the report released by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) late on Friday, the fuel switches for both eng ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 12 (ANI): A preliminary investigation into the Air India flight AI171 crash has revealed that just seconds before the aircraft lost power and went down near Ahmedabad airport, one pilot asked the other why he had cut off fuel to the engines, an action the second pilot reportedly denied, saying, did not do so. In the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why did he cut off. The other pilot responded that he did not do so, the preliminary rep ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 12: Air India Boeing 787-8 aircraft's engine fuel control switches transitioned from 'RUN' to 'CUTOFF' position within three seconds after lift-off, leading to the plane crashing in just 34 seconds after taking off from Ahmedabad on June 12, according to the initial probe report by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) released early on Saturday. Both fuel control switches supplying fuel to the engines of Air India flight 171 were turned off in quick succession, shut ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Fuel control switches to the engines of an Air India flight that crashed shortly after takeoff, killing 260 people, were moved from the "run" to the "cutoff" position moments before impact, a preliminary investigation report said early Saturday. The report, issued by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, did not offer any conclusions or apportion blame for the June 12 disaster but indicated that one pilot asked the other why he cut off fuel, and the second pilot responded t ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 12: Both switches feeding fuel to the two engines of Air India flight 171 were cut off followed by pilot confusion before the plane crashed in Ahmedabad, seconds after taking off, the first investigation report into the crash has revealed. It said that one pilot asked why he had shut off the fuel, and the other responded he didn't do it. The crash on June 12 was the first fatal disaster involving a Boeing 787, killing a total of 260 people -- all but one of the 242 people on boa ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 11 (PTI) The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has published its preliminary report on the fatal accident of Air India's Boeing 787-8 plane that was operating flight AI 171 from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick on June 12. A total of 260 people, including many on the ground, died in the crash that happened soon after take off. Following are some of the key points from AAIB's 15-page report. * 230 passengers and 12 crew members were onboard the aircraft. Fifteen passenger ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 11 (PTI) The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has released the preliminary report on the fatal Air India plane crash on June 12 and said there are no recommended actions to operators of Boeing 787-8 and GEnx-1B engine operators at this stage of the probe. The plane, carrying 242 people, crashed in around 30 seconds after lift off and engine fuel control switches got switched off little over a second after lift off, AAIB said. While the investigation is continuing in ...Read More >
NEW DELHI - A preliminary report into the Air India crash that killed 260 people in June showed three seconds after taking off, the plane's engines' fuel cutoff switches almost simultaneously flipped from run to cutoff, starving the engines of fuel. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner immediately began to lose thrust and sink down, according to the report released on July 12 by Indian aviation accident investigators. One pilot can be heard on the cockpit voice recorder asking the other why he cut off th ...Read More >
(Reuters) -A preliminary report by Indian aviation accident investigators said on Saturday the fatal Air India crash that killed 260 people in Ahmedabad last month showed the plane engines fuel cutoff switches shifting from cutoff to run within seconds of each other. "At this stage of investigation, there are no recommended actions to Boeing (NYSE:BA) 787-8 and/or GE GEnx-1B engine operators and manufacturers" India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau said. The agency, an office under Ind ...Read More >
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