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...
20 May, 2026, 08.40 AM IST
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...
19 May, 2026, 02.43 PM IST
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...
30 Mar, 2026, 08.11 PM IST
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...
28 Mar, 2026, 12.16 AM IST
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 ...
05 Feb, 2026, 10.00 PM IST
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...
03 Feb, 2026, 11.12 AM IST
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...
03 May, 2024, 07.18 PM IST
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...
07 Jun, 2023, 07.03 AM IST
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...
18 Jul, 2022, 11.35 PM IST
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...
23 Dec, 2019, 10.52 AM IST
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".
13 Dec, 2019, 03.19 PM IST
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...
16 Mar, 2018, 06.22 PM IST
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 ...
03 Mar, 2017, 11.17 AM IST
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...
16 Oct, 2014, 06.59 PM IST
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...
11 Oct, 2014, 03.38 AM IST
- 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...
02 May, 2012, 02.31 PM IST
- 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...
14 Aug, 2009, 07.24 AM IST