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Britain’s aviation authorization has asked Air India to explicate however a Boeing Dreamliner rider pitchy which was grounded connected accomplishment successful India for information checks took disconnected from London connected Sunday (February 1, 2026) with a perchance faulty substance switch, a missive shows.
The U.K. Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), successful a missive to the hose dated Tuesday (February 3, 2026), warned of the anticipation of regulatory enactment against Air India and its Boeing 787 fleet if the hose does not taxable a implicit effect within a week.
Air India said successful a connection it had completed a precautionary re-inspection of the switches and recovered nary issues, and would “respond to the U.K. regulator accordingly”.
The CAA said successful a connection that it was a modular process for a regulator to petition details pursuing “an aircraft incidental and is successful enactment with information assurance procedures”.
Fuel switches were astatine the centre of past year’s clang involving an Air India Dreamliner, which killed 260 radical successful Gujarat authorities and triggered tighter scrutiny of the airline. The switches modulate the travel of pitchy substance into a plane’s engines.
Air India said connected Monday (February 2, 2026) it had grounded a Boeing Dreamliner aft a aviator reported a imaginable “defect” with the substance power control connected the level connected landing.
Boeing, which earlier said it was cooperating with Air India connected the incident, did not respond to a request for comment.
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U.K. regulator seeks ‘detailed’ account
The Indian civilian aviation watchdog aboriginal said that during the motor commencement successful London, the unit observed the substance power control did not stay latched connected the ‘run’ presumption connected 2 occasions, but was unchangeable connected a 3rd attempt.
The unit decided to proceed connected to India and the regulator’s checks this week recovered the switches were functioning fine.
The CAA, however, told Air India that it indispensable supply “a elaborate relationship of each maintenance actions performed to guarantee the continued airworthiness of the craft and to enactment its merchandise to work for” Bengaluru.
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Root origin investigation sought
The U.K. watchdog has besides sought a “comprehensive root-cause analysis” of the incidental and a “preventive enactment plan” to preclude a recurrence of akin events crossed Air India’s Boeing 787 fleet, said the letter, which was not made public.
Air India successful an interior memo connected Wednesday (February 4, 2026) said it had besides checked the substance switches connected each of its Boeing 787s — which Flightradar24 says full 33 — and “no issues were found”.
