The families of four victims of the June 12 crash of Air India Flight AI171 have filed a lawsuit against US planemaker Boeing and aerospace supplier Honeywell, alleging that faulty cockpit fuel switches caused the deadly accident that killed 260 people. The complaint, lodged in Delaware Superior Court on Tuesday, claims the accident occurred seconds after the Boeing 787 Dreamliner took off from Ahmedabad for London due to a defective design of the aircraft’s fuel cutoff switches. Honeywell manufactured the switches, which were approved by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). While the FAA has said the switches themselves do not appear to have caused the crash, the lawsuit contends that their design and placement made them prone to accidental activation. The lawsuit seeks uns

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