Air India plane crash report: US aviation regulator flagged fuel switch issues in 2018; airline says...

A preliminary report on investigation into the Air India plane crash of June 12 has revealed that the aircraft's fuel switch was turned off just moments after takeoff. Now, it has surfaced that the US' Federal Aviation Administration had flagged a potential issue with the fuel switch years ago.
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