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Aviation watchdog DGCA has asked Air India to instrumentality corrective measures aft the hose deployed a incorrect craft for operating a formation to Vancouver past week, a elder authoritative said connected Thursday (March 26, 2026).
Action has besides been taken against an hose authoritative for the incident, the elder authoritative astatine the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) told PTI.
A Vancouver-bound Air India Boeing 777-200 LR aircraft, aft being airborne for implicit 7 hours, returned to Delhi connected March 19 aft it was recovered that the level was not approved for operating the flight. The support is lone for Boeing 777-300 ER to run that flight.
Following the incident, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had sought a study from the airline.
Air India has been asked to instrumentality corrective measures to guarantee that specified incidents bash not hap again, and enactment has besides been taken against an hose official, the DGCA authoritative said.
Specific details could not beryllium ascertained.
There was nary contiguous remark from Air India.
On March 20, sources had said that an evident lapse successful updating the database of requirements for the cognition of flights to Canada resulted successful the concern of the deployment of the incorrect aircraft.
"Air India formation AI185, operating from Delhi to Vancouver connected 19 March, returned to Delhi owed to an operational contented and successful enactment with established modular operating procedures. The craft landed safely, and each passengers and unit had disembarked," the hose said successful a connection connected March 20.
