According to the carrier, a maintenance task was identified just as the aircraft was preparing for departure. The situation was further complicated as the operating crew subsequently came under mandatory flight duty time limitation norms, making it unsafe and impermissible for them to con
The regulator, during a spot check, found that Air India operated two Bangalore-London flights (AI133) on May 16 and 17, 2025, each exceeding the stipulated 10-hour maximum flight time under Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR) Section 7, Series J, Part III.
Hir Prajapati, who lost his mother, Kalpana Ben Prajapati, in the AI-171 plane crash, has moved to the US Federal Court against Boeing, expecting speedy justice.
Congress MP KC Venugopal submitted on Tuesday a privilege motion notice to the Lok Sabha speaker on the Air India Flight delay issue. He has also written a letter to the Civil Aviation Minister.
Trupti Soni, sister of Swapnil Soni, who died in the Air India AI-171 plane crash, had called for a transparent investigation into the tragedy and announced plans to pursue legal action in the United States.
The suspension is primarily driven by the planned shortfall in Air India's fleet, as the airline commenced retrofitting 26 of its Boeing 787-8 aircraft last month. This extensive retrofit programme, aimed at significantly enhancing customer experience, necessitates a prolonged unavailabil
Air India clarifies that flight AI2455 of 10 August operating from Thiruvananthapuram to Delhi was diverted to Chennai as a precautionary measure after the pilot detected a suspected technical issue and in view of the weather conditions en route to Delhi.
The DGCA said that the diversion was due to bad weather and the crew suspected a weather RADAR malfunction. The flight circled over Chennai to burn extra fuel and it aborted first landing attempt at Chennai as instructed by ATC after a departing Gulf Air flight reported debris on runway.
Responding to the claims of Congress MP K C Venugopal that "there was another aircraft in the runway when we are going to land" Bharatiya Janata Party leader Amit Malviya called it a "extremely serious", claim denied by the Air India a day after a Delhi bound flight made an emergency landing
Congress MP K Suresh, who was among the passengers of an Air India flight from Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram to Delhi that was diverted to Chennai on Sunday due to a suspected technical issue, on Monday sought an inquiry into the incident.
Earlier on Monday, Vengugopal said that while he, along with multiple other MPs, experienced a "harrowing journey" after AI 2455 flight from Trivandrum to Delhi experienced turbulence, leading to a precautionary landing in Chennai. He said in a post on X that while a landing was attempted fo