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

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

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

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 ...

The directive follows preliminary findings from the Air India Boeing 787 crash investigation, which revealed that the fuel ...

Thursday’s Air India plane crash that killed more than 240 people has brought renewed scrutiny on Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner aircraft — which was at the center of a conspiracy theory following ...

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 ...

Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner Has a Long History of Safety Concerns. D.C. Plane Crash Puts Spotlight on History of ‘Near Misses’ in the U.S. Yes, Flying in the U.S. Is Safe. Read More.

It's the first fatal crash involving a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, prompting investigations supported by GE Aerospace and Air India; Air India Flight AI171, en route to London from Ahmedabad, ...

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.