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Rosie Shead

Air India crash: Not easy to ‘accidentally’ cut off fuel switches, expert says

Parts of the Air India plane that crashed on Thursday (Rafiq Maqbool/AP/PA) - (AP)

The fuel switches that were cut off before the Air India plane crash are the kind used on every flight, and designed so that this cannot easily “accidentally” happen, an aviation expert has said.

The London-bound Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed into a medical college shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad Airport on June 12, killing 241 people on board.

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