Air India has revealed that one of the two engines on the doomed Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner flight that crashed seconds after taking off from Ahmedabad Airport was new, and the other wasn’t due for a service until the end of the year.
“The right engine was a new engine put in March 2025,” the airline’s chairman N Chandrasekaran told the local Indian news channel, Times Now.
“The left engine was last serviced in 2023 and (was) due for its next maintenance check in December 2025”.
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Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner takes off from Ahmedabad airport just before crashing on June 12, 2025. Newslions / SWNS Rescue workers at the crash site of the Air India plane in Ahmedabad, India. AFP via Getty Images
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