LONDON-BOUND AIR INDIA FLIGHT 'CANCELLED OVER GLITCH'
An Air India plane from Ahmedabad to London has been cancelled a week after flight AI171 crashed, killing as many as 270 people.
The flight was cancelled today due to ‘technical issues’, but no update has been given since.
CNN News18 reported that the plane had arrived from Delhi and was due to depart from Ahmedabad’s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport at 1.10pm local time (8.40am UK time).
It was then expected to arrive in Gatwick Airport at 6.25pm later today.
According to FlightRadar, the plane for the now-cancelled flight would have been an Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, the same type as the aircraft in last week’s tragedy – the worst in India’s aviation history.
The Boeing was set to make six more journeys between Ahmedabad and London over the next week and so far they remain on schedule.
On Monday, another of the carrier’s flights was axed after facing delays caused by operational issues, eventually leading to the expiry of the crew’s duty time.
And in the early hours of this morning Air India flight from San Francisco to Mumbai suffered a technical glitch in one of its engines.
All passengers were asked to deplane at Kolkata airport, where the jet had arrived for a layover.
Investigators in India are currently studying the black boxes of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner after recovering them from the aircraft wreckage.
They will provide cockpit conversations and data related to the engine and control settings to investigators and help them in determining the cause of the crash.
Amit Singh, a former pilot and an aviation expert, said the recovery of the flight data and cockpit voice recorders, or black boxes, are crucial to piece together the sequence of events.
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The cockpit voice recorder records pilots’ conversation, emergency alarms and any distress signal made before a crash.
The plane’s digital flight data recorder stores information related to engine and control settings. Both devices are designed to survive a crash.
Singh stressed that ‘the data will reveal everything, adding that technical details could be corroborated by the cockpit voice recorder.
Metro has contacted Air India for a comment.
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2025-06-17T08:47:25Z