{"id":648894,"date":"2025-10-06T11:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T05:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=648894"},"modified":"2025-10-06T11:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T05:42:06","slug":"dgca-investigates-uncommanded-rat-deployment-on-air-indias-boeing-787-8-dreamliner-flight-to-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-investigates-uncommanded-rat-deployment-on-air-indias-boeing-787-8-dreamliner-flight-to-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA investigates \u2018uncommanded\u2019 RAT deployment on Air India&#8217;s Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner flight to Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is investigating a major safety incident where an Air India flight to Birmingham, UK, deployed its Ram Air Turbine (RAT) without command. The plane, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraf,t reportedly deployed its RAT system \u2014 usually used in case of engine failure, just before landing, according to a PTI report.<\/p>\n<p>In a major incident involving an Air India plane, Ram Air Turbine, which is usually used in case of engine failures, got deployed without any command from a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft a few minutes before landing at the Birmingham airport on Saturday, according to officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is investigating a major safety incident where an Air India flight to Birmingham, UK, deployed its Ram Air Turbine (RAT) without command. The plane, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraf,t reportedly deployed its RAT system \u2014 usually used in case of engine failure, just before landing, according to a PTI report. In a major incident involving an Air India plane, Ram Air Turbine, which is usually used in case of engine failures, got deployed without any command from a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft a few minutes before landing at the Birmingham airport on Saturday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}