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Al Express was warned about delay on Airbus engine fix
Hindustan Times Pune
|July 05, 2025
NEW DELHI: India’s aviation watchdog reprimanded Air India’s budget carrier in March for not timely changing engine parts of an Airbus A320 as directed by European Union’s aviation safety agency, and falsifying records to show compliance, a government memo showed.
In a statement, Air India Express told Reuters it acknowledged the error to the Indian watchdog and undertook “remedial action and preventive measures”.
Air India has been under intense scrutiny since the June Boeing Dreamliner crash in Ahmedabad which killed all but ‘one of the 242 people onboard. The world’s worst aviation disaster in a decade is still being investigated.
This story is from the July 05, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Pune.
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