Mumbai: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has directed Air India to reinspect the Ram Air Turbine (RAT) on all aircraft whose power conditioning modules (PCMs) was replaced recently.

The aviation regulator has also sought a “comprehensive report” from US aircraft-maker Boeing on the preventive measures to be implemented with respect to the un-commanded Ram Air Turbine (RAT) deployment incident in an Amritsar-Birmingham flight on October 4. ADVERTISEMENT

This comes after Air India said that the RAT deployment was not due to system fault or pilot action.

There were two back-to-back incidents involving Air India Boeing 787 aircraft recently, following which the Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) wrote to the civil aviation minister, urging the government to ground Air India’

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