India, the United Arab Emirates and South Korea have all ordered airlines to inspect the fuel switch locking systems on ...

An India-bound flight was forced to turn back mid-air amid growing concern over fuel switches following a report into the Air ...

Only Emirates has ordered the Airbus A380 at scale, to feed its mega-hub in Dubai. In contrast, the 787 has been a plane for all seasons. Europe’s biggest holiday company, Tui, has 13 of the jets.

To be sure, the FAA at the time recommended, but did not mandate, an inspection of the locking feature of the fuel cutoff ...

In the wake of the report, airlines with Boeing aircraft in their fleet have aggressively begun to check the fuel switches.

Emirates is the most prominent example of an airline operating an all-widebody fleet of aircraft. It operates the world's largest passenger jets and the largest fleets of those jets. This is partly ...

But the incident has drawn attention to the aircraft involved: the 787 Dreamliner, the first of a modern generation of radical, fuel-efficient planes. Prior to the accident, the 787 had operated for ...

All of the weight reductions and aero efficiency gains for the 787 improved fuel economy by 20% compared to the 767, its ...

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is one of the fastest and longest-ranging jet liners in the sky today. It came into being at a time when Boeing placed a bet on a change in how the aviation industry ...

Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner Raised Safety Concerns but Had Never Crashed Before There are more than 1,100 of the jets in service today. Air India flies nearly three dozen of them.