Aviation watchdog DGCA has asked Air India to take corrective action after the airline deployed the wrong aircraft to operate a flight to Vancouver last week, a senior official said on Thursday.
A senior Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) official told PTI that action has also been taken against an airline official over the incident.
An Air India Boeing 777-200 LR bound for Vancouver, after being in the air for more than seven hours, returned to Delhi on March 19 after it emerged that the aircraft was not approved to operate the flight. The approval is only for the Boeing 777-300 ER to operate that flight.
Following the incident, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) requested a report from the airline.
The DGCA official said that Air India has been asked to take corrective action to ensure that such incidents do not happen again and action has also been taken against an official of the airline.
Specific details cannot be confirmed.
There was no immediate comment from Air India.
On March 20, sources said that an apparent error in updating the list of requirements for operating flights to Canada led to the wrong plane being placed.
“Air India flight AI185, which was operating from Delhi to Vancouver on March 19, returned to Delhi due to an operational issue and in line with established standard operating procedures. The aircraft landed safely and all passengers and crew members have disembarked,” the airline said in a statement on March 20.
