New Delhi: Air India today announced a full software diagnostics check in all its Boeing 787 Dreamliners, two days after a “minor software glitch” forced one of these aircraft to make an emergency landing.
Airline officials added that the national carrier’s B787s, hit by serial glitches for months now, would also see a software upgrade to prevent future outages.
Wednesday’s “glitch” had disabled the aircraft’s autopilot mode and forced the pilot to divert the plane, which had taken off from Melbourne, and land at Kuala Lumpur.
All the three onboard flight management computers, which control navigation and allow a plane to fly long distances on autopilot, are said to have failed simultaneously.
Air India officials claimed that Boeing was carrying out periodic and systematic checks of all the airline’s B787s, with each aircraft “thoroughly looked into from nose to tail”.
“Boeing and our engineers are systematically upgrading the software of all our Dreamliners. It is an ongoing process and would be completed soon,” an Air India spokesperson said.
He added that the Directorate-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had been informed about Wednesday’s snag and would look into the software failure along with Boeing.
07/02/14 Telegraph
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Airline officials added that the national carrier’s B787s, hit by serial glitches for months now, would also see a software upgrade to prevent future outages.
Wednesday’s “glitch” had disabled the aircraft’s autopilot mode and forced the pilot to divert the plane, which had taken off from Melbourne, and land at Kuala Lumpur.
All the three onboard flight management computers, which control navigation and allow a plane to fly long distances on autopilot, are said to have failed simultaneously.
Air India officials claimed that Boeing was carrying out periodic and systematic checks of all the airline’s B787s, with each aircraft “thoroughly looked into from nose to tail”.
“Boeing and our engineers are systematically upgrading the software of all our Dreamliners. It is an ongoing process and would be completed soon,” an Air India spokesperson said.
He added that the Directorate-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had been informed about Wednesday’s snag and would look into the software failure along with Boeing.
07/02/14 Telegraph
