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The families of four passengers who died in the June crash of Air India Flight 171 sued Boeing and Honeywell , blaming their negligence and a faulty fuel cutoff switch for the accident, which killed 260 people.

Flight 171 crashed shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad en route to London on June 12.

In a complaint filed on Tuesday in Delaware Superior Court, the plaintiffs said the locking mechanism for the switch on the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner could be turned off inadvertently or missing, causing a loss of fuel supply and loss of thrust needed for takeoff.

They said Boeing and Honeywell, which respectively installed and manufactured the switch, knew about that risk, especially after the U.S. F

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