Damaged part of the Boeing 787 Air India. who crashed moments after take -off from the airport lies on the building in Ahmedabad 12 June 2025. Photo Credit: PTI
Story: Air India’s Boeing 787 Aircraft (AI 171), which took off from Ahmedabad to London on Thursday (June 12, 2025), crashed minutes after take -off in the Sardar VallaBhbhai external district Patel International Airport said. Pilots who carried 242 people on board called “May Day” to check the air traffic (ATC) before they left responding and encountered a medical college in the Meghaninagar area. More than 200 bodies have been obtained and rescue operations are taking place. Among the victims was the former main Minister Gujarat Vijay Rupani.
Over the past few months around the world have been reported several times on Boeing 787 aircraft. Five incidents of engines, gears, flaps, cab loss and altitude have been reported this year in Boeing 787 by aircraft by aircraft Aeroininside. Air India has faced problems with this plane for more than ten years, the latest 13th December 2024. When traveling from Nový Delhi to Birmingham, Flight AI-113 showed a hydraulic leak in the nose during the last access to Birmingham track 15. During the landing it was towed and grounded for 28 hours.
Problems Boeing 787
Introduced to Air India fleet in 2011, Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner It is 186 feet long aircraft with a span of 197 feet and capacity to transport 248 passengers. The aircraft, powered by the Genex Genx-1B/ Rolls-Royce Trent 100 electric motor, has a range of 13,530 km. Boeing Touts reduces the use of fuel by 25%and has ferry over one billion passengers over the past 14 years and unlocked 425 new nonstop routes around the world.
Two years later, however, the Japan Airlines 787 in March 2013 experienced a fuel leak twice and deposited it. Similarly, the problems with the main batteries on the United Airlines 787 aircraft were reported. The governments of Japan and the United States founded their fleet of aircraft while conducting a comprehensive review.
In India Boeing, he recommended Air India to avoid flying Dreamliner near storms at a high level and by quoting the increased icing risk on engines that led to the Delhi-Tococo route. As the Federal Air Administration Federal Air Administration (FAA), Air India Delhi-Kokata 787, returned to Delhi after its windshield suffered a crack, and two more 787 aircraft were grounded because their GE engines belonged to the same series.
Within 14 months of its launch, Air India Dreamliner faced the fleet of 136 minor defects. Due to its grounding Air India, it has spent more expenditures of 60 MAKH per day, to replace other aircraft on its route and additional costs of 1.43 Crore per day, for the financing of aircraft and pilot maintenance, the Ministry of Civil Aviation said in Rajya Sabha. In response, Boeing has implemented a “modification package” consisting of upgrading to aircraft software and components through 10 -day maintenance of all Dreamliner aircraft.
Between 2015 and 2024, 787 flights showed Air India 32 incidents involving engine shutdown, flight control faults, non -recractions, smoke inside the cab, communication loss, cracked windshield, cabin pressure, heavy turbulence, height, bar failure, tire ruins, tire rupture. In two cases, technical problems led to accidents and injured several passengers, but without victims. Today’s flight Ahmedabad is the only one that crashed, which led to death.
Boeing’s notifier indicated concerns
Upon completion of decades of bumpy failures, Boeing Engineer Sam Salehpour Vladin’s abbreviations employed by companies in the production of its 777 and 787 Dreamliner Jets. In January 2024, who filed a FAA complaint, Mr. Salehpour claimed that the crews could not fill the gaps as they joined the separately produced fuselage parts, and shortened the life of the Jets by worn more on the aircraft. He also claimed that engineers were under pressure to work with green light that had not yet been checked. FAA is currently investigating these claims.
Previously, in 2021, a similar complaint at the wrong assembly was marked, which led to both FAA and Boeing stopped Dreamliners. After the investigation of FAA and Boeing’s certainty that changes in their production process were renewed. No dream lines were grounded throughout the process.
Published – June 12, 2025 20:52
