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Gurugram (Haryana) [India], July 16 (ANI): Air India has announced a phased resumption of its international operations following a Safety Pause implemented after the tragic crash of flight AI171 on June 12. The airline had suspended or reduced multiple routes to conduct precautionary inspections on its Boeing 787 aircraft and to adapt to longer flight paths necessitated by regional airspace closures. The airline on Tuesday said that partial services would be restored starting August 1, with fu ...Read More >
BENGALURU, July 15 (Reuters) - Air India said on Tuesday it would partially restore its international flight schedule that was scaled back following the crash involving its flight last month that killed 260 people. As part of the restoration, Air India will start a thrice-weekly service between Ahmedabad and London Heathrow from August 1 to September 30, replacing the currently operating five-times-a-week flights between Ahmedabad and London Gatwick. A Boeing 787 Dreamliner bound for London fr ...Read More >
Investigations into the Air India plane crash are looking into the pilots' medical records as it's claimed one of them had depression and mental health issues. Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, an experienced pilot with more than 8,200 hours in the cockpit, was piloting the Boeing 787 Dreamliner when it plummeted into a residential area, called Meghani Nagar, killing 241 people on board and claiming 19 more lives of those on the ground. Seconds after taking off on June 12, two fuel switches in the coc ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Sarai Kale Khan Namo Bharat station, which will be the converging point for three Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) corridors, is ready for operations. Trial runs have been concluded with the state govt to take a final decision on when it can open for public use."The final touches are being given to the station," said an official of the National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC), which is executing the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut RRTS corridor. Sarai Kale Khan is set to b ...Read More >
BENGALURU: Air India said on Tuesday it would partially restore its international flight schedule that was scaled back following the crash involving its flight last month that killed 260 people. As part of the restoration, Air India will start a thrice-weekly service between Ahmedabad and London Heathrow from Aug 1 to Sept 30, replacing the currently operating five-times-a-week flights between Ahmedabad and London Gatwick. A Boeing Dreamliner bound for London from the Indian city of Ahmedabad ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Air India will from August 1 partially start resuming flights that were slashed after the June 12 Ahmedabad crash and full restoration of schedule is expected from October 1. Terming it the "safety pause," AI Tuesday said the cuts enabled it to "perform additional precautionary checks on Boeing 787 aircraft as well as accommodating longer flying times arising from airspace closures over Pakistan and the Middle East." Between August 1 and September 30, AI will operate thrice weekly bet ...Read More >
Mumbai, Jul 15 (PTI) Air India on Tuesday said it will operate three weekly flights from Ahmedabad to Heathrow, London, from August 1 to September 30, replacing Gatwick, London. The airline currently operates five weekly flights on the Ahmedabad-London Gatwick route. Besides, Air India also announced the partial restoration of schedules that were reduced following its decision to observe a "Safety Pause", in the aftermath of the June 12 Boeing 787-8 plane crash, that killed 260 people. The pa ...Read More >
Mumbai: The attack on Sambhaji Brigade leader Pravin Gaikwad has triggered a stir in Maharashtra politics with opposition parties alleging the assailants were the BJP activists. However, Maharashtra minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule claimed the BJP has nothing to do with the attack. Raising the issue in the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha, Congress legislative party leader Vijay Wadettiwar said that Gaikwad was fatally attacked, dragged out of his car, and his face was blackened. He claimed it was an ...Read More >
New Delhi: Days after a preliminary investigation report into the deadly Air India plane crash pointed to a possible issue with Boeing's fuel control switch, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) responded by saying that the switches installed on Boeing aircraft, including the Dreamliner, remain safe for use. The FAA's statement came after India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) released its first official findings into the June crash that killed 260 people. The Boeing 78 ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Four people died in Himachal Pradesh as rain continues to wreak havoc in the state, while five were swept away in Rajasthan's Kota at a barrage after a heavy downpour caused the authorities to release water from a reservoir. In Himachal, more than 200 roads are out of bounds for vehicular traffic, a majority of them in Mandi, while a flash flood warning has been issued for 12 districts in Jharkhand. An individual each drowned in Kullu and Kangra districts, one died after being bitte ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has directed all Indian carriers operating Boeing 787 and 737 aircraft to inspect the fuel switch locking system by 21 July 2025. This move follows a preliminary investigation into the recent Air India Boeing 787 crash, which revealed that fuel supply to both engines was cut off moments before the accident. According to PTI, DGCA noted that several global and domestic operators have started inspecting their fleets in line with the FAA' ...Read More >
Mumbai: Aviation regulator DGCA on Monday asked airlines to inspect the fuel switch locking system in their Boeing 787 and 737 planes, a move that comes days after the preliminary probe report into the Air India's Boeing 787 crash found that the switches were cut off before the accident last month. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), back in 2018, had flagged the potential disengagement of the fuel control switch locking feature on certain models of Boeing aircraft, including 787s and 73 ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 14 (PTI) Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Priyanka Chaturvedi on Monday wrote to Civil Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu, demanding a probe to figure out how details of a preliminary report into the crash of Air India flight AI171 was released to the international media before its release in India. In a letter to Naidu, she said a formal inquiry should be conducted into the "leak". Seeking transparency regarding the authorship of the report, Chaturvedi said the names of all membe ...Read More >
New Delhi: Air India CEO Campbell Wilson on Monday addressed the tragic crash of Flight AI 171, confirming that preliminary findings from the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) show no mechanical or maintenance faults with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner or its engines. The aircraft, which was en route from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick, crashed on June 12 shortly after takeoff, striking a building and killing all 260 people on board. On Saturday, the AAIB released its initial report into th ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Indian Commercial Pilots' Association (ICPA), the narrow-body fleet pilots' body at Tata Group-owned Air India, on Sunday said the crew of the AI-171 flight that crashed last month acted in line with their training and responsibilities under challenging conditions, and the pilots should not be vilified based on conjecture. Strongly rejecting insinuations in some quarters about pilot suicide, the association representing narrow-body pilots of Air India stressed that until the offic ...Read More >
London/New Delhi: The stillness at Southend shattered just after 4 pm. A private jet climbed into the sky and then did not make it far. In seconds, the airport's edge lit up in a blinding explosion. A ball of fire punched through the clouds. Flames rolled outward. A thick plume of smoke rose behind it. People ducked. Some froze. Others ran. "I heard this loud, terrifying boom and looked up. A massive fireball just burst out. We did not know if it was a terrorist attack or a fuel explosion. It ...Read More >
New Delhi/Mumbai, Jul 13 (PTI) A five-member team, headed by 56-year-old Sanjay Kumar Singh, is probing the fatal crash of the Air India aircraft last month in Ahmedabad that killed 260 people. Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) Director Singh is the Investigator-in-Charge and Deputy Director Jasbir Singh Larhga is the Chief Investigator. Also Read | Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Approves To Install CCTV Cameras in All 74,000 Coaches To Enhance Passenger Safety. There are also ...Read More >
New Delhi/Mumbai, Jul 13 (PTI) A five-member team, headed by 56-year-old Sanjay Kumar Singh, is probing the fatal crash of the Air India aircraft last month in Ahmedabad that killed 260 people. Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) Director Singh is the Investigator-in-Charge and Deputy Director Jasbir Singh Larhga is the Chief Investigator. There are also three Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) officials in the investigation team -- Deputy Director Vipin Venu Varakoth, Assi ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 13 (PTI) It will be too premature to draw conclusions on the role of pilots from the preliminary investigation report into the fatal crash of Air India plane last month and the final report will mention about the most probable cause for the accident, former AAIB chief Aurobindo Handa said on Sunday. A day after the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) released its preliminary report into the crash that killed 260 people, he said, "We should allow AAIB to complete the inv ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 12 (ANI): Mark D Martin, Founder and CEO of an aviation safety and consulting firm, on Saturday said that the preliminary report by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) on the Air India flight 171 crash was cryptic in many ways. He argued that the Ram Air Turbine (RAT) in the aircraft was only deployed in the event of engine failure. It is the initial report, and it is quite cryptic in many ways. It says a lot of points that dont add up. If there were an en ...Read More >
New Delhi/ Mumbai, Jul 12 (PTI) The preliminary probe report on the fatal Air India aircraft crash has turned the spotlight on the action of pilots, while the absence of any recommendation for Boeing 787-8 operators seems to have left several questions unanswered as the investigation progresses, experts said on Saturday. Switches that feed fuel into the aircraft's engines being cut off within a gap of one second, subsequent loss of thrust and altitude before crashing into a building in Ahmedaba ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 12 (ANI): Former Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Flight Operations Inspector Captain Prashant Dhalla on Saturday floated the idea of 'startle effect' in play before the Air India flight 171 crashed in Ahmedabad shortly after departure while noting that it was 'premature' to assume human error. Discussing the importance of understanding human factors in crash incidents, he noted that the preliminary report by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) ...Read More >
BENGALURU - The fuel control switch went off within three seconds of take-off, leading both engines to shut down moments before the Air India Boeing 787 London-bound flight crashed in Ahmedabad, said a preliminary report by the Indian government. The 15-page report was released by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) late on July 11, detailing findings from its probe into the plane crash on June 12 that killed 260 people - 229 passengers, 12 crew members, and 19 individuals o ...Read More >
India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) released the preliminary report into the tragic crash. The report outlines a harrowing sequence of events that unfolded within 90 seconds of takeoff, as both engines of the aircraft shut down. Surat: Following the release of the preliminary report by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), families of the victims asked if technical checks were done by Air India before allowing the plane to fly. Yashpal Singh Vansdiya, who lost bot ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 12 (ANI): Former Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Flight Operations Inspector Captain Prashant Dhalla on Saturday floated the idea of startle effect in play before the Air India flight 171 crashed in Ahmedabad shortly after departure while noting that it was premature to assume human error. Discussing the importance of understanding human factors in crash incidents, he noted that the preliminary report by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) stat ...Read More >
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], July 12 (ANI): Aviation expert Sanjay Lazar on Sunday said that the preliminary report by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) on the Air India flight 171 crash raises more questions than answers, and expressed that the investigative authority should have made the transcript of cockpit voice recorder (CVR) public. He said that informing the public about only "one line" from the cockpit conversations about "switches" raises more questions. Also Read | Ai ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 12 (ANI): The Airline Pilots Association of India on Saturday raised objections to the preliminary report released by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) regarding the Air India plane crash on June 12, claiming that it suggests a bias towards pilot error. The tone and direction of the investigation suggest a bias toward pilot error. We categorically reject this presumption and insist on a fair, fact-based inquiry, the pilots association said in a media stat ...Read More >
Surat (Gujarat) [India], July 12 (ANI): The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) on Friday released the preliminary report of the AI-171 plane crash. Yashpal Singh Vansdiya, who lost both his parents in the accident, has questioned the government and investigation agencies. The AI-171 flight, which was bound for London Gatwick airport, crashed soon after takeoff from Ahmedabad Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel airport on June 12. 260 people lost their lives in the accident, which included 229, ...Read More >
New Delhi, India - Just moments before a fatal Air India crash on June 12, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner's fuel-control switches in the cockpit mysteriously moved from the "run" to the "cutoff" position, an early investigation into the disaster has revealed. Flipping to cutoff almost immediately cuts the engines. The investigation's report, issued by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) early on Saturday, found that both engines shut down within the space of one second, leading to ...Read More >
Surat (Gujarat) [India], July 12 (ANI): Following the release of the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau's (AAIB) preliminary report on the Air India crash that took place in Ahmedabad on June 12, Yashpal Singh Vansdiya, who lost his parents in the plane crash, raised certain questions incudng weather all preventive checks were done on the aircraft. 'I have certain questions to ask the government and the investigation agencies. Based on the report, which mentions one pilot asking the other i ...Read More >
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