New Delhi: A day after a probe report on the June 13 Air India plane crash stated that both fuel switches flipped from ‘RUN’ to the ‘CUTOFF’ shortly after take-off, the Etihad Airways have reportedly ordered their pilots to “exercise caution” with fuel switches on the Boeing 787 aircraft.
The Etihad Airways has also ordered an investigation into how the fuel control switches operate, The Hindu reported on Monday.
The report claimed that Etihad released a bulletin on July 12, asking pilots to “exercise caution when operating the fuel control switches or any other switches/control in their vicinity”.
However, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Boeing had claimed that the fuel control switches on its aircraft, including 787, were not unsafe.
“Although the fuel control switch design, including the locking feature, is similar on various Boeing airplane models, the FAA does not consider this issue to be an unsafe condition that would warrant an Airworthiness Directive on any Boeing airplane models, including the Model 787,” the notification to Civil Aviation Authorities read, as reported by Reuters.
The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) released a preliminary probe report on the Air India flight crash on July 12. The report came exactly a month after the deadly crash of the Boeing 787 aircraft in Ahmedabad that killed 260 people.