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Air India completed preliminary inspections of the locking mechanism on the fuel control switches in all of its Boeing (NYSE:BA) 787 aircraft and found “no issues,” Indian broadcaster NDTV reported Wednesday.
The carrier ran the checks after India’s civil aviation regulator issued a directiver earlie this week to inspect the fuel control switches of specific Boeing (NYSE:BA) models by July 21, as scrutiny intensified of the fuel switch locks at the center of an investigation into last month’s Air India crash that killed 260 people.
“Over the weekend, our engineering team initiated precautionary inspections on the locking mechanism of [fuel control switches] on all our Boeing 787 aircraft. The inspections have been completed and no issues were found,” an Air India official told NDTV, adding that nearly the entire Boeing 737 MAX (NYSE:BA) fleet of Air India Express also was checked, also with no issues.
A preliminary report on the crash released last week found the switches had almost simultaneously flipped from run position to cutoff shortly after takeoff.
Separately, at a White House meeting with President Trump on Wednesday, Bahrain’s Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa announced $17B in investments in the U.S., including buying 12 Boeing (BA) jets with an option for six more, and 40 GE (GE) engines.
Bahrain also is expected to sign deals with Oracle and Cisco, with plans to replace Chinese servers with Cisco products, and will seek to increase its investments in U.S. energy, tech and manufacturing sectors, the White House said.