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Sena minister claims 14 (UBT) MLAs set to join Shinde; Uday Samant denies 'operation tiger'Shiv Sena minister Gulabrao Patil's claim of 'Operation Tiger 3.0' and 14 UBT MLAs joining Eknath Shinde's faction has been met with contra...
'Didn't have means to travel by rickshaw, now fly in private jets': Sanjay Raut targets party MPs amid defection buzzShiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut accused party leaders of defecting, claiming they owe their political rise to Uddhav Thackeray. He alleged a...
India prepares interim, not final, investigation report as Air India crash anniversary nears, source saysIndian investigators are preparing an interim report for the deadly Air India crash. This report will be more comprehensive than the initia...
India sends Boeing 787 fuel switch for US inspectionIndia's aviation authorities are sending a Boeing 787 fuel control switch to the United States for inspection. This follows a pilot's repor...
India to monitor Boeing fuel-switch test tied to Air India London incident, documents showIndian aviation officials plan to visit Boeing’s Seattle facility in June to witness testing of a fuel-control switch module removed from a...
Tech defects, maintenance delays led to grounding of 99 aircraft this year: GovernmentIndian airlines face revenue losses from the Middle East crisis. The civil aviation ministry reported hundreds of planes grounded in recent...
DGCA tightens safety rules for VVIP flightsNew rules now govern VVIP flights. Flight crew experience requirements have increased. Engineers must fix all reported defects before the n...
Nearly three-fourths of Air India Group's 267 planes identified for repetitive defects since Jan 2025: Govt dataIn all, 377 aircraft have been identified as having recurring defects since January last year, of the total 754 aircraft analysed for such ...
Air India starts inspection of fuel control switches in its Boeing 787 planesAir India has begun a precautionary, fleet-wide re-inspection of fuel control switches on its Boeing 787 aircraft after a switch defect was...
Who was Dean Joshua? Know about Boeing whistleblower who had warned about "catastrophic" safety failings in 2017Much before the door panel blew off an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 in midair in January this year, aviation worker Dean Joshua had war...
Boeing halts shipments of the 787 Dreamliner for a flaw in the tail section of the planesThe company said it is inspecting fittings on part of the tail called the horizontal stabilizer "for a nonconforming condition." The inspec...
DGCA conducts spot checks, finds insufficient engineering staff certifying planesDGCA on Monday said it conducted spot checks and found that there is an insufficient number of engineering personnel certifying planes of v...
Three grounded B737 freighter planes back in operation: SpiceJetNo-frills carrier SpiceJet on Monday said it has re-started operations of three Boeing 737 freighter aircraft that were grounded earlier th...
SpiceJet grounds three B737 freighter planesNo-frills carrier SpiceJet on Friday said it has grounded three Boeing 737 freighter aircraft due to a "potential defect".
Delhi High Court refuses to ground entire fleet of IndiGo's A320neoAdvocate Yeshwanth Shenoy's said in his plea that IndiGo's A320neo fleet should be grounded until the manufacturers give in writing that th...
Faulty aircraft engines led to Kingfisher collapse: MallyaMallya said amid aviation regulator DGCA ordering detailed inspection of P&W engines powering some Airbus 320 neo planes being operated in ...
US-registered Bombardier aircraft grounded by DGCA after surprise checkSeveral "major" safety violations were found in 8-seater Bombardier Global 5000 aircraft during a DGCA safety check drive after it landed f...
DGCA grounds three planes of GoAir, Air India, private operatorAn Airbus A-320 of AI was found to have not carried out a mandatory second check of the cowl of the right-side engine, which was repaired s...
- Jetlite plane stranded on runway for 40 minutes
Planes could not land for nearly an hour as a Jetlite aircraft got stranded on the runway following a technical failure at the LGB Internat...
- Boeing pays $25 million to settle US probe
Boeing Co agreed to pay the US government USD 25 million to settle claims the company did defective work on critical military refueling pla...