Air India has completed precautionary inspections on the locking mechanism of the fuel control switch on all its Boeing 787 and Boeing 737 aircraft, with no issues found, the airline said on Tuesday.
Air India operates a fleet of Boeing 787 twin-aisle jets on its long-haul operations, while low-cost unit Air India Express operates the Boeing 737 single-aisle jets. The probe into the Air India flight that crashed and killed 241 of the 242 people on board and 19 on the ground is centred around the fuel control switches on the Boeing 787 jetliner.
A final report into the incident is expected within a year of the accident.
The switches regulate fuel flow into a plane's engines. They are used by pilots to start or shut down engines on the ground or to manually shut down or restart engines if an engine failure occurs during a flight.
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