An Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner.
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Air India said on Wednesday that it will lower the international activities in its Widebody plane by 15% in the coming weeks, stating continuous safety inspections and operational disruptions after last week's deadly crash of one of his Boeing 787 Dreamliners.
Authorities continue to investigate the crash of flight AI171, in which 241 people were killed and marked the deadly air -fern camp in a decade.
The airline said in a statement that inspections were completed on 26 of his 33 Boeing 787-8 and 787-9 aircraft, and those 26 have been cleaned up for service.
The cutbacks, effectively until at least mid -July, were implemented “to guarantee the stability of operations, better efficiency and to minimize the discomfort for passengers,” said the Tata Group airline.
The remaining aircraft will be checked in the coming days and extra checks are also planned for his Boeing 777 Fleet, Air India added.
Flight AI171, on the way to the London Airport Gatwick, crashed shortly after taking off Ahmedabad and killed all but 30 people on the ground.
Earlier on Wednesday, Air India chairman N. Chandrasekaran said that the flight that crashed had a clean engine history.
In an interview with the Indian Broadcaster Times now, Chandrasekaran said that the right engine of Air India Flight 171 was new and was installed in March 2025, and that the left -hand motor was last maintained in 2023.
The Dreamliner was equipped with Ge aerospace's Genx Engines.
Air India also mentioned geopolitical tensions in the middle and “Night curfews in many European and East Asian air spaces” as contributing factors behind flight statements, which have 83 in the last six days a total of 83.
