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NEW DELHI: A Vancouver-bound Air India aircraft going via the east — and not even taking the Gulf war zone route — had to return to Delhi after nearly nine hours of flying on Thursday. The reason: AI has clearance to operate its Boeing 777-300 extended range (ER) fleet to Canada and not the B777-200…
Image Used For Representational Purpose Only NEW DELHI: A SpiceJet Boeing 737 returned to Delhi within an hour of taking off for Leh after reportedly suffering an engine failure on Tuesday. There were around 150 people on board the Boeing 737 aircraft operating flight SG121, the source added. The aircraft took off at 6.08am and…
MUMBAI: In a development with direct implications for the investigation into the June 12 fatal Air India Boeing 787 Ahmedabad crash, another Air India Dreamliner saw a fuel control switch move from “run” to “cut-off” after a crew member pressed it to check whether it was locked.The switch moved without the required lift action, suggesting…
Pilot Sumit Kapur, known as “Bunny,” died in a charter aircraft crash in Maharashtra; Sumit Kapur’s daughter and father at Punjabi Bagh crematorium in Delhi NEW DELHI: For his family, Sumit Kapur was not defined by the jet crash that claimed his life, but by the warmth he carried into every room. To them, he…
HYDERABAD: Indian carrier Air India has signed an order for 30 additional Boeing single-aisle aircraft, including 20 737-8 and 10 737-10 jets, as it focuses on accelerating its fleet renewal and regional growth. The 737 aircraft are powered by CFM LEAP-1B engines.The order, announced at Wings India 2026 on Thursday, adds to the 220 Boeing…
Air India on Tuesday unveiled the interiors of its first custom-built Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, marking a key milestone in the airline’s ongoing fleet modernisation and standardisation drive under the Tata Group.The wide-body aircraft, featuring newly designed cabins, will be deployed on the Mumbai–Frankfurt route starting February 1. This is the first Dreamliner to join Air…
A US federal court in Chicago on Monday began hearing a second damages trial against Boeing over the fatal 2019 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX aircraft, as a Canadian plaintiff sought compensation for the loss of multiple family members in the tragedy.The case has been filed by Manant Vaidya, whose sister Kosha Vaidya…
Captain Brandon Fisher, the pilot of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, has filed a $10 million lawsuit against Boeing. He alleges the company wrongly blamed him and his first officer for the door plug blowout that forced an emergency landing in January 2024. The lawsuit was filed on December 30, 2025, in an Oregon court and…
Air India Express will get its first line fit Boeing 737-8 MAX aircraft on Monday, December 29 in New Delhi. It’s the first brand-new plane made specifically for Air India since Tata Group took over from the government in 2022. The aircraft, registered as VT-RNT, pays tribute to Ratan Naval Tata with a special livery…
India is preparing to dispatch a team of accident investigators to Washington next week to review the ongoing probe into the June Air India crash that claimed 241 lives. The group will go through the data collected so far by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and present their own analysis drawn from the…
