U.Okay. asks Air India to clarify Boeing Dreamliner fuel-switch incident

Britain’s aviation authority has requested ‌Air India to clarify how a Boeing Dreamliner passenger jet ​which was grounded on arrival in India for security checks took off from London on Sunday (February 1, 2026) with a probably defective gasoline change, a letter exhibits.

The U.Okay. Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), in a letter to the airline dated Tuesday (February 3, 2026), warned of the potential of regulatory motion towards Air India and its Boeing 787 fleet if the airline doesn’t submit an entire response ​inside per week.

Air India mentioned in a press release it had ⁠accomplished a precautionary re-inspection of the switches and located no points, and would “reply to the U.Okay. regulator accordingly”.

The CAA mentioned in a press release that it was a normal course of for a ​regulator to request particulars following “an ⁠plane incident and is in keeping with security assurance procedures”.

Gas switches had been on the centre of final 12 months’s crash involving an Air India Dreamliner, which killed 260 individuals in Gujarat state and triggered tighter scrutiny of ‌the airline. The switches regulate the stream of jet gasoline into ‌a airplane’s engines.

Air India mentioned on Monday (February 2, 2026) it had grounded a Boeing Dreamliner after a pilot reported a attainable “defect” with ‍the gasoline management change on the airplane on touchdown.

Boeing, which earlier mentioned it was cooperating with Air India on the incident, didn’t reply to a ‍request for remark.

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U.Okay. regulator seeks ‘detailed’ account

The Indian civil aviation watchdog later mentioned that throughout the engine begin in London, the crew noticed the gasoline management change didn’t stay latched on the ‘run’ place on two events, however was secure on a 3rd try.

The crew determined to proceed on to India and the regulator’s checks this week discovered the switches had been functioning advantageous.

The CAA, nevertheless, instructed Air India that it should present “an in depth account of all ⁠upkeep actions carried out to make sure the continued airworthiness of the plane and to assist its launch to service for” Bengaluru.

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Root trigger evaluation sought

The U.Okay. watchdog has additionally sought a “complete root-cause evaluation” of the incident and ⁠a “preventive motion plan” to preclude a recurrence of comparable occasions throughout Air India’s Boeing 787 fleet, mentioned the letter, which was not made public.

Air India in an inside memo on Wednesday (February 4, 2026) mentioned it had additionally checked the gasoline switches on all of its Boeing ⁠787s — which Flightradar24 says complete 33 — and “no points had been discovered”.