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India orders inspection of Boeing 787s after Air India crash

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India's aviation regulator has ordered all Boeing 787s being operated by local carriers to be inspected after an Air India crash killed 270 people this week, the aviation minister said on Saturday, adding the authorities were investigating all possible causes.

The aviation regulator on Friday ordered Air India to conduct additional maintenance checks on its Boeing 787-8/9 aircraft equipped with GEnx engines, including assessments of certain take-off parameters, electronic engine control tests and engine fuel-related checks.

"We have also given the order to do the extended surveillance of the 787 planes. There are 34 in our Indian fleet," aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu told a media briefing in New Delhi.

"Eight have already been inspected and with immediate urgency, all of them are going to be done."

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Good luck. To this day, the Indian government hasn't been able to hold Union Carbide, another American company, for the tragedy in Bhopal in 1984. They will fail with Boeing too. India is too weakened by corruption to do anything meaningful in the world. Indians do okay abroad but their own country drags them down.
- Given how long this plane was in service (over 10 years), it's going to be harder to prove fault is on Boeing here.
  My guess is that it was an actual accident with no one really at fault, or it was some issue with maintenance on the aircraft. But I'm not aerospace engineer.
  
  This is the second time I'm reading this kind of logic (about service time).
  10 years is nothing for an aircraft. This is almost the best span during its lifetime – when you have the experience with both the model and the particular unit.
  To quote Airbus:
  As commercial aircraft spend 30-plus years in operational service, Airbus takes the long-term view in accompanying the aircraft it produces throughout their lifetime – enabling operators to maximise performance and minimise costs, while also contributing to the overall sustainability of air transportation.
  30-plus. Not less than 10.
  It could be bad maintenance, for sure. But it could also be just Boeing again.
I have a feeling they may not like what they find
- Are they going to find a dead whistleblower? 😄
  
  I can’t rule anything out at this point in this timeline.
  
  they were trapped haunting the boeing space shuttle.
We'll have to wait for a full analysis first. However, Boeing is known for having lackluster quality control that has led to accidents in the past. If the company is indeed responsible for the crash, I fear that the current UD regime will likely do everything within its power to shield it from consequences.

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