New Delhi, 14/6: A day after an ill-fated ‘Dreamliner’ aircraft crashed in Ahmedabad, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Friday ordered “enhanced safety inspection” of Air India’s Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet with immediate effect in coordination with its local offices. Air India has 27 Boeing 787-8s and seven Boeing 787-9s in its fleet.
In its order, the civil aviation regulator six additional maintenance actions on the B787-8/9 aircraft equipped with Genx engines with immediate effect as a “preventive measure. In the plane crash on Thursday afternoon, 241 of the 242 people on board were killed within a minute of the Ahmedabad-Gatwick flight took off.
