Air India has requested crew to promptly report any defects noticed throughout operations and to make sure that all required actions are accomplished earlier than accepting the plane. File photograph: ITBP by way of PTI
Air India has began inspection of the gasoline management switches in its Boeing 787 planes following the incident of a change malfunctioning in an plane that operated a flight from London Heathrow to Bengaluru on Sunday (February 1, 2026), sources stated.
At current, Air India has 33 Boeing 787s or Dreamliners.
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Air India’s Senior Vice President for Flight Operations, Manish Uppal, instructed Boeing 787 pilots that the airline has initiated a fleet-wide re-inspection of the plane’s gasoline management switches, in line with sources.
Following the reported defect involving a gasoline management change on one of many B787 plane, Mr. Uppal stated the airline’s engineering workforce has escalated the matter to Boeing for precedence analysis.
“Within the interim, whereas we await Boeing’s response, our engineers – out of an abundance of warning – have initiated precautionary fleet-wide re-inspection of the Gas Management Change (FCS) latch to confirm regular operations,” he stated in an e-mail on Tuesday (February 3).
Mr. Uppal additionally stated that no opposed findings have been reported on the plane for which this re-inspection was accomplished, he stated within the e-mail despatched to B787 pilots.
Additional, Air India has requested crew to promptly report any defects noticed throughout operations and to make sure that all required actions are accomplished earlier than accepting the plane.
Air India had inspected the gasoline management switches final yr after the deadly crash of a Boeing 787-8 airplane in Ahmedabad that killed 260 individuals.
An Air India pilot on Monday (February 2) reported a defect with the gasoline management change of a Boeing 787-8 airplane after working the flight from London Heathrow to Bengaluru, and the airline grounded the plane for checks.
The flight that took off from London Heathrow on Sunday (February 1) landed in Bengaluru on Monday (February 2) morning.
The functioning of the gasoline management change is in focus following the crash of Air India’s Boeing 787-8 plane that killed 260 individuals final June, because the preliminary probe report talked about that gasoline provide was minimize off quickly after take-off.
At the moment, Air India has 33 Boeing 787s – 26 legacy Boeing 787-8s and seven Boeing 787-9s, together with 6 from Vistara and a custom-made airplane that was inducted into its fleet in January.
Printed – February 03, 2026 12:27 pm IST
