India, Feb. 3 -- Air India has announced that it will reinspect the fuel control switches on its Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet following a pilot's report of a potential defect on one aircraft. The move comes just days after a pilot flying from London Heathrow to Bengaluru noticed abnormal behaviour with a fuel control switch on a Boeing 787-8, prompting the airline to ground that plane immediately as a precaution.

The issue has attracted fresh attention because the same component, the fuel control switch, was central to the investigation into last year's deadly June 12 Dreamliner crash near Ahmedabad, which killed 241 people on board.

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