Tambaram: An Air India’s Boeing Dreamliner 787 aircraft was grounded at the Chennai Airport on Thursday morning following instructions from the Director General of Civil Aviation.
The DGCA communique was a fallout of an emergency landing of a Dreamliner in Japan on Wednesday.
According to sources at the Chennai Airport, the Dreamliner was scheduled to leave for New Delhi with 186 passengers at 10.45 a.m. when the DGCA’s information reached Chennai Airport authorities.
The 186 passengers, along with another 64 passengers waiting to board a flight for Bengaluru, were accommodated in an Air India Airbus 330. It took off at 11.15 a.m. and the flight left for Bengaluru first before proceeding to New Delhi.
17/01/13 The Hindu
