{"id":658273,"date":"2026-02-04T12:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658273"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:38:11","slug":"fuel-switch-scare-air-india-to-send-impacted-component-for-checks-what-dgca-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fuel-switch-scare-air-india-to-send-impacted-component-for-checks-what-dgca-said\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel switch scare: Air India to send &#8216;impacted&#8217; component for checks &#8211; what DGCA said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday said both switches of an Air India Boeing 787-8 aircraft were found to be \u201csatisfactory\u201d after the pilots reported a possible defect in the fuel control switch upon landing in Bengaluru from London.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred earlier this week. In response, Air India grounded the aircraft and initiated a fleet-wide inspection of fuel control switches on its Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday said both switches of an Air India Boeing 787-8 aircraft were found to be \u201csatisfactory\u201d after the pilots reported a possible defect in the fuel control switch upon landing in Bengaluru from London. The incident occurred earlier this week. In response, Air India grounded the aircraft and initiated a fleet-wide inspection of fuel control switches on its Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner fleet.<\/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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658273","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=658273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}