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Air India mentioned on Monday it had grounded one among its Boeing Dreamliners after one among its pilots reported a difficulty with the gasoline management change, which is on the heart of an ongoing probe right into a lethal air crash final yr.

“We’ve grounded mentioned plane and are involving the OEM to get the pilot’s issues checked on a precedence foundation,” the airline mentioned, including that the matter has been communicated to India’s aviation regulator.

Boeing and India’s civil aviation ministry, which homes the aviation regulator, didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters’ request for remark.

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World Information despatched a request to Transport Canada, and requested if there are any plans to floor the identical jets in Canada amid these new stories. A response was not acquired by publication.

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Investigation into Air India airplane finds gasoline was minimize off moments earlier than crash

The Tata Group and Singapore Airways-owned service has confronted intense scrutiny since a Dreamliner crash in June final yr killed 260 folks.

Air India mentioned on Monday it had checked the gasoline management switches on all Boeing 787 plane in its fleet after a directive from the regulator final yr, and had discovered no points.

A cockpit recording of dialog between the 2 pilots of the June 12 Air India flight instructed that the captain minimize the stream of gasoline to the airplane’s engines, a supply briefed on U.S. officers’ early evaluation of proof informed Reuters final yr.

– With a file from World’s Ariel Rabinovitch