RAT gets deployed on Air Indias Birmingham-bound plane; aircraft lands safely
Mumbai, October 5 (PTI) Air India’s Amritsar-Birmingham flight operating team, Boeing 787’s Ram Air Turbine (RAT) on October 4, was unexpectedly deployed during the last approach, but the aircraft descended safely.
Rat is automatically deployed to the end of the dual engine failure or total electronic or hydraulic failure. Uses wind rate to produce emergency power.
Air India said he had canceled the Birmingham-Delhi flight because it was grounded for the aircraft examination.
“On October 4, 2025, the flight from Amritsar to Birmingham AI117’s operating team detected the distribution of the Ram Air Turbine (Rat) of the aircraft during its last approach. He said.
However, the airline did not share certain details, including the number of people on the ship.
Air India, in a statement, alternative arrangements to meet passengers, he said.
Both the motor and hydraulic/ electrical failure or software failure are specified in June this year among the various possible reasons for the Air India Boeing 787 aircraft accident.
On June 12, Air India’s Boeing 787-8 aircraft operating flight AI 171 On the way to London, Gatwick hit a medical hostel complex shortly after the departure from Ahmedabad and killed 260 people, including 241 people on the plane.
Indian Aircraft Accident Bureau, Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) is investigating the accident.
In his preliminary report in July this year, AAIB asked the Maltese Boeing 787-8 aircraft after the engine fuel control switches were removed, and one of the pilots had cut off and the second, according to AAIB, said he did not do it.
Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) in the 15 -page preliminary report on the accident within about 30 seconds, the fuel control switches were opened later, but the slowdown in one of the engines could not be stopped, he said.
US aircraft manufacturer Boeing has maintained silence in one of the most deadly air accidents in India in the last thirty years.
