Two whistleblowers, senior Air India flight attendants, in a letter have alleged that a technical problem with a Boeing 787 Dreamliner was flagged by them to the airline, a year before the deadly Ahmedabad crash that killed 241 of 242 onboard, according to a TOI report.
The airline has, however, refuted the claims made by the whistleblowers in the letter.
The two attendants have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, claiming they were terminated from service by the airline after they refused to change their statement about a technical problem with a Boeing 787 door last year, as per the report.
As per the letter quoted by ToI, the two alleged that the Dreamliner's door had malfunctioned as the slide raft deployed, though the door was opened in the "manual mode". Slide rafts deploy when a door is opened in "armed" or "automatic mode". As per the report, the incident had occurred on May 14, 2024, after the Mumbai-London B787 (VT-ANQ) operating flight AI-129 docked at Heathrow and the passengers disembarked. Accordingly, the pilots and crew gathered at door L4 last year in May. The two flight attendants, responsible for door opening, carried out the checklist to confirm it was in the manual position, said the letter. But the slide raft deployed when the door was opened.
The incident, they say, was initially corroborated in writing by the pilot and cabin-in-charge. "However, to our utter shock and surprise when we told (the AI management) the truth that the door was in...
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