Air India has started inspection of the fuel control switches in its Boeing 787 planes following the incident of a switch malfunctioning in an aircraft that operated a flight from London Heathrow to Bengaluru on Sunday (February 1, 2026), sources said.
At present, Air India has 33 Boeing 787s or Dreamliners.
Air India’s Senior Vice President for Flight Operations, Manish Uppal, told Boeing 787 pilots that the airline has initiated a fleet-wide re-inspection of the aircraft’s fuel control switches, according to sources.
Following the reported defect involving a fuel control switch on one of the B787 aircraft, Mr. Uppal said the airline’s engineering team has escalated the matter to Boeing for priority evaluation.
“In the interim, while we await Boeing’s response, our engineers – out of an abundance of caution – have initiated precautionary fleet-wide re-inspection of the Fuel Control Switch (FCS) latch to verify normal operations,” he said in an email on Tuesday (February 3).
