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DGCA orders additional maintenance checks for Air India’s B787 aircraft

DGCA orders additional maintenance checks for Air India’s B787 aircraft

New Delhi, June 13 (UNI) The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Friday issued a directive mandating urgent additional maintenance checks for Air India’s B787-8/9 fleet equipped with Genx engines.
The directions were issued in the wake of the recent accident involving an Air India Boeing B787-800 aircraft operating flight AI-171 from Ahmedabad to Gatwick on June 12.
In an order issued here, the aviation regulator stated that, as a preventive measure, the DGCA has directed Air India to carry out additional maintenance actions on Boeing 787-8/9 aircraft equipped with Genx engines, in coordination with the concerned regional DGCA offices.

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