Air India has started inspecting the fuel control switches on all its Boeing 787 planes after a switch malfunction was reported on a flight from London Heathrow to Bengaluru on Sunday, February 1, 2026. The airline currently operates 33 Boeing 787 aircraft. Manish Uppal, Air India’s Senior Vice President for Flight Operations, told Boeing 787 pilots that a fleet-wide re-inspection of the fuel control switches is underway. "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," Uppal said in an email on Tuesday, February 3. The issue was flagged after an Air India pilot reported a fuel control switch defect following a London-Bengaluru flight on Monday, February 2. The aircraft involved was grounded for thorough checks. No problems were found in planes already inspected, Uppal added. Following the fatal crash of a Boeing 787-8 in Ahmedabad last year that killed 260 people, Air India had already inspected these switches. The recent focus on the fuel control switch comes as the preliminary probe into that crash pointed to fuel supply interruption shortly after takeoff. Air India’s 33 Boeing 787s include 26 legacy 787-8s and 7 Boeing 787-9s, including 6 from Vistara and one custom-made plane joined in January. The airline has asked its crew to promptly report any defects and complete all required checks before flying. The engineering team has escalated the issue to Boeing for priority evaluation.