New Delhi: Air India has deferred inducting the 16th Dreamliner into its fleet as the aircraft experienced technical trouble during recent test flights in Seattle headquarters of the US manufacturer Boeing.
A team of Air India pilots and engineers, which recently conducted the pre-delivery test flights, returned here a few days ago as the brand new plane was sent back to the factory to rectify certain major technical issues, airline officials said.
The national carrier, which has ordered 27 of these latest airplanes, currently has 15 of them in its fleet and is expecting deliveries of three more till the year end.
Maintaining that the latest aircraft had started giving trouble from the first test flight itself, the officials said Air India would not take its delivery till all problems are corrected.
17/07/14 PTI/Economic Times
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A team of Air India pilots and engineers, which recently conducted the pre-delivery test flights, returned here a few days ago as the brand new plane was sent back to the factory to rectify certain major technical issues, airline officials said.
The national carrier, which has ordered 27 of these latest airplanes, currently has 15 of them in its fleet and is expecting deliveries of three more till the year end.
Maintaining that the latest aircraft had started giving trouble from the first test flight itself, the officials said Air India would not take its delivery till all problems are corrected.
17/07/14 PTI/Economic Times
