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DGCA orders probe after Air India flew plane 8 times without licence
Hindustan Times Gurugram
|December 03, 2025
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said on Tuesday that it has launched an investigation on Tuesday and grounded an Air India aircraft that was reported to have been operated for eight commercial flights with an expired Airworthiness Review Certificate (ARC).
Ina statement issued on Tuesday, the civil aviation regulator said, “On November 26, the operator (Air India) informed DGCA about the flying of the aircraft on the expired ARC for eight revenue sectors... DGCA has instituted investigation and instructed the operator to ground the aircraft.”
The DGCA said that the personnel concerned have been de-rostered with immediate effect pending the completion of the investigation.
‘The statement was issued after anews report bya financial daily brought the incident to light.
Air India, acting on DGCA’s instructions, also initiated an internal probe to identify gaps in its system and “put corrective measures in place to prevent such failures from occurring in future,” the regulator said.
This story is from the December 03, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Gurugram.
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