{"id":290965,"date":"2026-03-16T13:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/?p=290965"},"modified":"2026-03-16T13:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:25:06","slug":"air-india-planes-face-safety-flaws-european-agency-warns-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/air-india-planes-face-safety-flaws-european-agency-warns-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India planes face safety flaws, European agency warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Air India, the flagship of the Tata Group, has found several safety flaws on its planes. <\/p>\n<p>The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has conducted a surprise inspection of Air India aircraft at European airports. Which has revealed these weaknesses. <\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, in January, Air India&#8217;s aircraft had a finding ratio of 1.96 during every inspection. After this, the agency based in Cologne informed India&#8217;s aviation regulator DGCA. The agency has since intensified inspections of Air India&#8217;s aircraft. <\/p>\n<p>If this ratio rises above 2, it could affect Air India&#8217;s operations in Europe. It is one of its major international markets. This will increase scrutiny of airlines&#8217; planes and some countries may even impose sanctions. <\/p>\n<p>A senior DGCA official said that immediate steps have been taken to address Air India&#8217;s security lapses so that its operations in European countries are not affected. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>What&#8217;s the problem? <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to the DGCA official, the number of security vulnerabilities in Air India came down last week due to increased inspections. The ratio fell to 1.76. Airlines with a high safety record usually have a ratio of less than 1. <\/p>\n<p>Under the Foreign Aircraft Safety Assessment (SAFA) program, EASA inspectors carry out surprise inspections of non-EU airlines aircraft at European airports. Aircraft are checked at about 54 parameters, including safety equipment such as emergency exits and life jackets. \u2013Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Air India, the flagship of the Tata Group, has found several safety flaws on its planes. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has conducted a surprise inspection of Air India aircraft at European airports. Which has revealed these weaknesses. According to media reports, in January, Air India&#8217;s aircraft had a finding ratio of 1.96 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":205847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45044,45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290966,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290965\/revisions\/290966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/205847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}