The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) has written to the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) and urged it to ground all Boeing 787 aircraft operated by Air India for a detailed inspection of their electrical systems. The pilot body has also requested a special audit of the airline’s maintenance practices following two technical malfunctions in less than a week.

On Thursday, an Air India Vienna-Delhi flight was forced to divert to Dubai due to a technical snag. Last week, an Amritsar-Birmingham flight experienced an uncommanded deployment of the Ram Air Turbine (RAT), and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is investigating this.

‘Ground all Boeing 787s of Air India’

In its letter to Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu, the association underscored that the two back-t

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