Mumbai : Air India on Friday said conclusions from its preliminary investigations show that the deployment of Ram Air Turbine (RAT) in its Dreamliner aircraft on October 4 was “neither due to a system fault nor pilot action”.

RAT, which is usually used in case of engine failures, got deployed in Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft seconds before landing at the Birmingham airport on October 4. The aircraft, which was coming from Amritsar, made a safe landing.

“Based on the conclusions from our preliminary investigations, the deployment of the RAT was neither due to a system fault nor pilot action. The deployment of the RAT was ‘uncommanded’, consistent with similar occurrences with other airlines in the past, as reported by Boeing,” Air India said in a statement on Friday, a week afte

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