{"id":660707,"date":"2026-05-21T11:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T05:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=660707"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T05:42:07","slug":"air-india-boeing-787-aircraft-grounded-over-faulty-fuel-control-switch-slips-from-run-to-cutoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-boeing-787-aircraft-grounded-over-faulty-fuel-control-switch-slips-from-run-to-cutoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India Boeing 787 aircraft grounded over faulty fuel control switch: \u2018Slips from RUN to CUTOFF\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Air India Boeing 787-8 was grounded after its London Heathrow to Bengaluru, Karnataka flight in February 2026 over its faulty fuel control switch. According to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, a flight was grounded after a report in the \u2018Pilot Defect Report\u2019 stated that the fuel control switch slipped from \u2018RUN\u2019 to \u2018CUTOFF\u2019 when it was pushed slightly. The report mentioned that the switch also did not lock positively in its selected position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Air India Boeing 787-8 was grounded after its London Heathrow to Bengaluru, Karnataka flight in February 2026 over its faulty fuel control switch. According to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, a flight was grounded after a report in the \u2018Pilot Defect Report\u2019 stated that the fuel control switch slipped from \u2018RUN\u2019 to \u2018CUTOFF\u2019 when it was pushed slightly. The report mentioned that the switch also did not lock positively in its selected position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660708,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660707\/revisions\/660708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}