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Air India has started inspection of the substance power switches successful its Boeing 787 planes pursuing the incidental of a power malfunctioning successful an craft that operated a formation from London Heathrow to Bengaluru connected Sunday (February 1, 2026), sources said.
At present, Air India has 33 Boeing 787s oregon Dreamliners.
Air India’s Senior Vice President for Flight Operations, Manish Uppal, told Boeing 787 pilots that the hose has initiated a fleet-wide re-inspection of the aircraft’s substance power switches, according to sources.
Following the reported defect involving a substance power control connected 1 of the B787 aircraft, Mr. Uppal said the airline’s engineering squad has escalated the substance to Boeing for precedence evaluation.
“In the interim, portion we await Boeing’s response, our engineers – retired of an abundance of caution – person initiated precautionary fleet-wide re-inspection of the Fuel Control Switch (FCS) latch to verify mean operations,” helium said successful an email connected Tuesday (February 3).
Mr. Uppal besides said that nary adverse findings person been reported connected the craft for which this re-inspection was completed, helium said successful the email sent to B787 pilots.
Further, Air India has asked unit to promptly study immoderate defects observed during operations and to guarantee that each required actions are completed earlier accepting the aircraft.
Air India had inspected the substance power switches past twelvemonth aft the fatal clang of a Boeing 787-8 level successful Ahmedabad that killed 260 people.
An Air India aviator connected Monday (February 2) reported a defect with the substance power control of a Boeing 787-8 level aft operating the formation from London Heathrow to Bengaluru, and the hose grounded the craft for checks.
The formation that took disconnected from London Heathrow connected Sunday (February 1) landed successful Bengaluru connected Monday (February 2) morning.
The functioning of the substance power control is successful absorption pursuing the clang of Air India’s Boeing 787-8 craft that killed 260 radical past June, arsenic the preliminary probe study mentioned that substance proviso was chopped disconnected soon aft take-off.
Currently, Air India has 33 Boeing 787s – 26 bequest Boeing 787-8s and 7 Boeing 787-9s, including 6 from Vistara and a custom-made level that was inducted into its fleet successful January.
