WASHINGTON, D.C.: Families of four victims of the Ahmedabad plane crash have filed a lawsuit in the United States against planemaker Boeing and aircraft component maker Honeywell. The case, filed in a Delaware court, alleges that faulty fuel control switches, manufactured by Honeywell and installed by Boeing, led to the crash of the Boeing Dreamliner 787-8.

The aircraft, bound for London from Ahmedabad, went down shortly after takeoff, killing all 260 people on board. According to the lawsuit, filed in Delaware Superior Court by The Lanier Law Firm, flight data indicates that an Air India pilot accidentally shut off fuel to the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner's engines, causing a complete loss of thrust necessary to complete the takeoff.

The fuel cutoff switch, manufactured by Honeywell, is desi

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