New Delhi: An Air India investigation into why one of its Airbus planes conducted eight commercial flights without an airworthiness permit found \"systemic failures\", a company document showed, putting the lives of hundreds of passengers at risk.

An Airbus A320 flew passengers between New Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai and Hyderabad on November 24 to 25 without the mandatory Airworthiness Review Certificate, or ARC, a key permit issued annually by the regulator after a plane passes safety and compliance checks. Air India found engineers and pilots had failed to check the aircraft's documents and that changes were needed to bolster compliance protocols.

\"Critical information was not shared with all relevant stakeholders, and opportunities for timely intervention were missed,\" said the intern

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