Alaska Air crash fallout: DGCA asks Indian airlines for urgent checks on Max aircraft

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Saturday asked Indian carriers to immediately inspect the emergency exits of their B737-8 Max aircraft as a precautionary measure following the Alaska Airlines incident on Friday.

An emergency exit door of Alaska Airlines’s B737-9 Max aircraft – which was en route from Portland, Oregon, to Ontario, California – blew out soon after takeoff, forcing the plane to conduct an emergency landing back in Portland on Friday evening.