“Families of Air India crash victims sue Boeing and Honeywell over faulty fuel switches”, My Ind, September 18, 2025:
“The families of four people who died in the June 12 crash of Air India Flight AI171 have filed a lawsuit against US aircraft maker Boeing and aerospace supplier Honeywell, alleging that defective cockpit fuel switches were responsible for the accident that killed 260 people.
The lawsuit, submitted in Delaware Superior Court on Tuesday, says the crash happened just seconds after the Boeing 787 Dreamliner took off from Ahmedabad for London, due to a faulty design of the aircraft’s fuel cutoff switches.
Honeywell produced the switches, which were cleared by the US Federal Aviation Administration. While the FAA has said the switches themselves do not seem to have directly caused the crash, the lawsuit argues that their design and placement made them vulnerable to accidental use……”
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