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A Mumbai-bound Air India Express plane, with around 160 passengers onboard, aborted takeoff due to a technical snag at the Delhi airport on Wednesday evening, according to a source.
The government has begun holding direct meetings with Air India management amid mounting safety incidents, ordering the carrier to maintain the highest safety standards while setting a month-long timeline for reassessing its operations.
Air India says precautionary inspections have found no issues on the locking mechanism of fuel control switches for select Boeing aircrafts.
Airline says flight AI315 experienced an auxiliary power unit fire shortly after landing at Indira Gandhi International Airport.
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The aircraft, flight AI2403, was accelerating down the runway at 155 km per hour when the pilots decided to abort the take-off and applied brakes to bring the plane to a halt.
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