The families of four victims who died in an Air India crash earlier this year are blaming faulty fuel switches for the incident that killed 260 people.

In the first lawsuit filed in the U.S. over the crash, the families are accusing plane maker Boeing and Honeywell, which made the switches, of being responsible.

Air India Flight 171 took off on June 12 for London from the Indian city of Ahmedabad in a Boeing 787. Just seconds later, both engine fuel cutoff switches moved from run to cutoff, causing dual-engine flameout, according to the crash's preliminary report by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB).

The plaintiffs, in a complaint filed Tuesday in Delaware Superior Court, point to a 2018 Federal Aviation Administration advisory that recommended, but did not manda

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