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DGCA Will Do Thorough Study To Find Root Cause For Uncommanded RAT Deployment In AI Plane: Naidu

The incident involved the aircraft VT-ANO operating the flight AI117 from Amritsar to Birmingham on October 4.

New Delhi: Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu on Tuesday said regulator DGCA will conduct a thorough study to find the root cause that led to the uncommanded Ram Air Turbine (RAT) deployment in an Air India Boeing Dreamliner plane last week. The incident involved the aircraft VT-ANO operating the flight AI117 from Amritsar to Birmingham on October 4. The RAT was deployed seconds before the landing at Birmingham, and the aircraft landed safely.

To a question about the incident, Naidu said that whenever such incidents happen, the Directorate Genera

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