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Air India’s A350 aircraft going from New Delhi to London returned to Delhi on Thursday due to a technical glitch. This plane remained in the air for about seven hours. According to the flight tracking website, the plane took off from Delhi at around 6 am on Thursday.
About four hours later, when he was in Saudi Arabian airspace, the decision was taken to return him. Overall, the plane returned to Delhi at around 12:30 pm after being in the air for about seven hours.
According to sources, some unusual sounds were heard in the plane during the flight. Whereas Air India spokesperson said that due to technical problem, the decision to return was taken as a precautionary measure. The plane is being examined in Delhi.
March 15: This plane had a malfunction while coming from New York to Delhi.
The airline regretted the inconvenience caused to passengers and said efforts were being made to get them to London as soon as possible. According to the information, the same A350-900 (VT-JRF) aircraft of Air India also had a technical fault on March 15.
Then the flight coming from New York to Delhi had to be diverted towards Shannon city of Ireland. It was then reported that during the flight, at an altitude of about 33,000 feet, passengers had felt vibrations on the floor of the plane.
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In fact, on March 19, Air India’s Boeing 777-200 LR aircraft going from Delhi to Vancouver returned after flying for about seven hours. Because the company mistakenly sent Boeing 777-200 LR model aircraft instead of Boeing 777-300 ER.
Air India does not have permission to operate the Boeing 777-200 LR in Canada. Because of this the plane could not land in Canada. The mistake was discovered when the plane had reached Kunming airspace in China after flying for about 4 hours. Read the full news…
Air India increases number of flights amid conflict in West Asia
Such technical and manual malfunctions in Air India are continuously coming to light at a time when airlines are increasing the number of their international flights amid the ongoing conflict in West Asia.
In view of the increasing demand, Air India has also announced to operate additional flights to North America and Europe between March 19 and 28. According to the airline, a total of 36 additional flights will be operated on Delhi-London (Heathrow), Mumbai-London (Heathrow), Delhi-Frankfurt, Delhi-Zurich and Delhi-Toronto routes.
Earlier, between March 10 and 18, the airline had announced to operate 78 additional flights on 9 routes.
February 13- DGCA imposes ₹1 crore fine on Air India
India’s Civil Aviation Regulator (DGCA) had said on February 13 that it has imposed a fine of $ 1.10 lakh (about Rs 1 crore) on Air India. This action was taken due to an Airbus aircraft being flown 8 times without an ‘Airworthiness Review Certificate’ (airworthiness or fitness certificate).
DGCA said that this lapse has further reduced public trust in the country’s second largest airline. According to news agency PTI, the matter is of 26 November 2025, when Air India itself informed DGCA about this mistake. Read the full news…
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