India’s aviation regulator has ordered the country’s airlines to inspect fuel control switches in Boeing aeroplanes, after their reported involvement in a fatal Air India crash that killed 260 people in June.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said the order follows Indian and international airlines already starting to carry out their own checks.
It comes after the US Federal Aviation Administration said on Monday that the fuel control switches in Boeing aeroplanes are safe.
I’m confused because with the Air India crash, everything I read so far indicates there was no malfunction with the fuel control switches.
I think the interim report indicates the voice recorder even captured one crew member asking the other why he turned the fuel off.
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Better be safe than sorry. Looks to me like a standard procedure.
Can you imagine what people say if there was a problem and they didn’t check?
I don’t know. It seems like inspecting the fuel switches would be simple due diligence here.
India could still be attempting to shift blame, of course, but this move seems perfectly reasonable to me.
Due care, technically.
