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On 17 December 2009, Air India One, a Boeing 747-400 (registered as VT-EVA), operating as an executive flight for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh from Delhi to Copenhagen, was hit by a food delivery trolley shortly before it was scheduled for takeoff. The Prime Minister took off on a substitute Boeing 747-400 aircraft after a delay of 3 hours. [8]
An international incident occurred in 2001 when the government claimed it had discovered 27 bugs embedded in the aircraft's interior. [39] The aircraft had been refitted in San Antonio, Texas. It has since been converted back to a normal passenger airliner and sold. [40] A normal Air China Boeing 767 was occasionally used for travel from thereon.
The airline announced that it would be leasing 36 aircraft, 25 narrow-body aircraft and 11 wide-body aircraft, till the delivery of the newly ordered planes. [15] On 26 March 2023, Air India took delivery of its first Airbus A321neo , albeit a leased one. [ 16 ]
Air India became the first Asian airline to operate freighters when Air India Cargo was set up in 1954 and started its freighter operations with a Douglas DC-3 aircraft. [16] Air India Cargo ended freighter aircraft operations in early 2012. [124] Alliance Air was a wholly owned subsidiary of Indian Airlines established on 1 April 1996.
Air India commenced operations on 29 July 1946, operating under the Government of India. On 8 June 1948, a Lockheed Constellation L-749A named Malabar Princess operated the airline's first international flight between Mumbai and London Heathrow. [2] As of January 2025, Air India serves a total of 43 international and 49 domestic destinations. [3]
Krasnoyarsk International Airport said on Telegram the plane landed due to an activated smoke detector and a replacement flight with Air India staff from Delhi would land around 2 p.m. local time ...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -An Air India plane flying from Delhi to San Francisco was forced to divert and land at an airport in Russia's Far East after it developed a technical issue with one of its ...
The aircraft was overloaded and take-off was either downwind or with a crosswind. All 30 people on board survived. [49] On 5 January 2014, Flight AI-890 Airbus A320 VT-ESH of Air India from Imphal to Delhi via Guwahati was diverted to Jaipur Airport due to heavy fog in Delhi. The rear tire of the plane burst during landing, damaging the right wing.