{"id":266089,"date":"2026-02-03T21:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/266089\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T21:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:09:16","slug":"air-india-says-fuel-switch-possible-defect-grounds-jet-a-similar-issue-to-last-years-deadly-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/266089\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India says fuel switch \u2018possible defect\u2019 grounds jet &#8211; a similar issue to last year\u2019s deadly crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"cuTeSSdDP\" style=\"display:none\">A preliminary report by India\u2019s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) into the Ahmedabad crash did not assign blame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cuTeSSdDP\" style=\"display:none\">However, it said fuel supply to the jet\u2019s engines was cut off moments before impact, raising questions about possible pilot error.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cuTeSSdDP\" style=\"display:none\">According to the AAIB, one pilot was heard asking the other why fuel had been cut off, to which the second pilot replied that he had not done so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cuTeSSdDP\" style=\"display:none\">Two major Indian commercial pilots\u2019 associations, as well as the father of one of the dead pilots, have rejected suggestions that human error caused the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cuTeSSdDP\" style=\"display:none\">Air India has said it informed the civil aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, about the reported fuel switch issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cuTeSSdDP\" style=\"display:none\">It also said it had checked fuel control switches across its Boeing 787 fleet after the June crash and found no problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cuTeSSdDP\" style=\"display:none\">Indian authorities have yet to release a final report into the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cuTeSSdDP\" style=\"display:none\">-Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A preliminary report by India\u2019s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) into the Ahmedabad crash did not assign blame.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,68,31844,4376,4474,138,10474,3549,6659,62564,2678,62035,51249,2344,2205,76,28372,685,111,139,69,19723,17398,15267,3048,312,28702,32261,1361,61,1865,379,1530],"class_list":["post-266089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-after","tag-air","tag-aircraft","tag-airline","tag-boeing","tag-business","tag-control","tag-crash","tag-deadly","tag-defect","tag-fuel","tag-grounded","tag-grounds","tag-india","tag-involved","tag-issue","tag-jet","tag-last","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pilot","tag-possible","tag-reported","tag-said","tag-says","tag-similar","tag-switch","tag-that","tag-to","tag-today","tag-year","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}