India’s largest pilots’ union has urged regulators to ground and inspect all Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft in the country after an Air India flight’s emergency power device unexpectedly activated mid-air.
The ram air turbine or RAT, a backup system that deploys automatically to provide emergency power during in-flight failures, dropped from the fuselage of flight AI117 en route to Birmingham, UK, on Saturday, even though the airline later confirmed that all systems were operating normally.
