Suspend operation of Air India Boeing fleet pending security audit: Plea in SC

The London-bound Air India flight, Boeing Dreamliner 787-8, with 242 passengers and crew on board, crashed moments after taking off from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad on the afternoon of June 12.

The plea sought instructions to the authorities, notably the DGCA, to conduct unannounced audits of complete fleet of Air India and different air carriers working in India, with public disclosure of findings and imposition of quick corrective measures or penalties for non-compliance.

The plea filed by petitioner and advocate Ajay Bansal has made the Centre, Directorate General of Civil Aviation , Air India Limited and Bureau of Civil Aviation Security as events.

It additionally sought instructions for stringent safety and scientific checks of all planes working in India and quick grounding of all plane discovered not totally useful or with out prescribed amenities for worldwide passenger service till all defects have been rectified and airworthiness recertified.

In the interim, the plea sought to “suspend operation of Boeing aircraft of Air India, pending a safety audit within two weeks, in view of the recent crash and reported maintenance backlogs”.

The petitioner additional sought inside 4 weeks the formulation and notification of recent necessary tips prescribing stringent and periodic useful checks of all cabin gear, engines, airframes and ancillary techniques, in line with greatest worldwide requirements.

“The present petition challenges systemic failures in maintenance, functionality and passenger services on Air India flights, as evidenced by the recent tragic Ahmedabad-London crash, and the petitioner’s own business class journey on AI 127 on May 20, 2025, where seats, in-flight entertainment and air-conditioning were non-functional,” Bansal mentioned, referring to his journey from Delhi to Chicago.

The plea claimed the seats did not recline correctly, the seat-back leisure techniques have been totally non-functional and air-conditioning didn’t work till cruising altitude.

The current crash of an Air India Boeing plane on the Ahmedabad-London route has additional compounded considerations of normal public, the plea added.

Calling it a violation of Article 21 of the Constitution, Bansal mentioned the security and safety of all air passengers was subsumed inside “life” below the constitutional provision.

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