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Air India pilots reported a gas change failure on a Boeing 787-8 flight from London to Bengaluru after touchdown on Monday (February 2, 2026), after which the airline stated it had grounded the aircraft and was investigating the problem.
The change that provides gas to the aircraft’s two engines was on the coronary heart of the preliminary report into the crash of Air India Flight AI 171 in Ahmedabad in June final yr. A preliminary report into the Air India Ahmedabad crash, which additionally concerned a Boeing 787, says the switches supplying gas to the engines one after the opposite moved or “migrated” to their cut-off positions, inflicting a lack of engine thrust and shutting down each engines, inflicting the Boeing 787-8 to crash, killing at the very least 269 folks. Though the report doesn’t say whether or not this was an inadvertent or deliberate act, the small fragments and interactions between the 2 pilots reproduced in it have sparked debate about whether or not the crash was a suicide try.
The incident on Sunday (February 1, 2026) was delivered to public consideration by Captain Amit Singh, founding father of the NGO Security Issues. He petitioned the Supreme Courtroom for an impartial inquiry into the Ahmedabad accident. He claimed that the crew of an Air India flight from London Heathrow Airport to Bengaluru reported an analogous failure in one of many two gas switches.
In a media assertion on He additional said that “in the course of the engine begin, the change was unable to stay locked within the RUN place on two makes an attempt and went within the CUTOFF course,” noting that this malfunction may lower off the gas provide to the engine and, in sure situations, pressure the engine to close down.
Nonetheless, it isn’t clear why the crew determined to proceed the flight despite the fact that the failure was noticed throughout “engine begin,” because the publish claims. Nonetheless, Air India stated the incident was reported to it after the flight landed in Bengaluru.
“Now we have grounded the plane and engaged the OEM (unique tools producer) to evaluation the pilot’s considerations on a precedence foundation. The matter has been forwarded to aviation regulator DGCA,” Air India responded in an announcement.
Relating to the incident on Sunday (February 1, 2026), Amit Singh questioned the validity of the gas change inspections ordered by the DGCA after the June crash, when Air India had claimed to have accomplished inspections of all gas change locking mechanisms on its Boeing 787 and 737 plane.
There are at present three petitions within the Supreme Courtroom relating to the Air India crash, together with one by Captain Singh, one by Pushkar Raj Sabharwal, the daddy of the pilot who captained the ill-fated AI flight 171, and the third by a pupil.
