Boeing 777 flights: ‘No grounding; be more vigilant during checks of Boeing 777 engines’: DGCA to Air India – Instances of India
NEW DELHI: Air India’s Boeing 777s — the spine of the Maharaja’s lengthy and extremely lengthy haul nonstops to North America — haven’t been impacted by US aviation regulator’s directive to examine B777s with Pratt & Whitney (PW) engines.
The AI B777s have Basic Electrical (GE) engines. The Directorate Basic of Civil Aviation has, nonetheless, requested AI to be “more vigilant during ground checks (of these engines) as a precautionary measure.”
Final Saturday, a United Airways’ B777 with PW engines working from Denver to Honolulu had skilled a proper engine failure shortly after takeoff.
Particles from the engine was scattered over close by residential areas because the plane returned to Denver. It had landed safely and nobody on board was injured.
After this, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) stated it has directed “immediate or stepped-up inspections of Boeing 777 airplanes equipped with certain Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines. This will likely mean that some airplanes will be removed from service.”
Boeing has “recommended suspending operations of the 69 in-service and 59 in-storage 777s powered by Pratt & Whitney 4000-112 engines until the FAA identifies the appropriate inspection protocol.”
Accordingly, United Airways, Japan Airways and ANA are among the many airways which have stopped utilizing PW-powered B777s.
AI has 3 B777-200 lengthy vary (LR) and 13 B777-300 prolonged vary (ER) plane in its fleet.
Two B777 ER of AI have lately been transformed into VVIP plane to be used by the president, vice-president and prime minister, changing the over 25-year-old B747 jumbo jets that had been used for VVIP flights up to now. All of the AI B777s have GE engines.
“Air India has three B777 LRs with GE 90-110 series engines and 13 B777 ERs with GE 90-115 series engines. AI does not operate B777 with PW engines. While as of now there is no need to take any step on these aircraft types, we (are telling) AI to be more vigilant during ground checks as a precautionary measure,” a senior DGCA official stated.
Watch ‘No grounding; be more vigilant during checks of Boeing 777 engines’: DGCA to Air India
The AI B777s have Basic Electrical (GE) engines. The Directorate Basic of Civil Aviation has, nonetheless, requested AI to be “more vigilant during ground checks (of these engines) as a precautionary measure.”
Final Saturday, a United Airways’ B777 with PW engines working from Denver to Honolulu had skilled a proper engine failure shortly after takeoff.
Particles from the engine was scattered over close by residential areas because the plane returned to Denver. It had landed safely and nobody on board was injured.
After this, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) stated it has directed “immediate or stepped-up inspections of Boeing 777 airplanes equipped with certain Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines. This will likely mean that some airplanes will be removed from service.”
Boeing has “recommended suspending operations of the 69 in-service and 59 in-storage 777s powered by Pratt & Whitney 4000-112 engines until the FAA identifies the appropriate inspection protocol.”
Accordingly, United Airways, Japan Airways and ANA are among the many airways which have stopped utilizing PW-powered B777s.
AI has 3 B777-200 lengthy vary (LR) and 13 B777-300 prolonged vary (ER) plane in its fleet.
Two B777 ER of AI have lately been transformed into VVIP plane to be used by the president, vice-president and prime minister, changing the over 25-year-old B747 jumbo jets that had been used for VVIP flights up to now. All of the AI B777s have GE engines.
“Air India has three B777 LRs with GE 90-110 series engines and 13 B777 ERs with GE 90-115 series engines. AI does not operate B777 with PW engines. While as of now there is no need to take any step on these aircraft types, we (are telling) AI to be more vigilant during ground checks as a precautionary measure,” a senior DGCA official stated.
Watch ‘No grounding; be more vigilant during checks of Boeing 777 engines’: DGCA to Air India
