{"id":475461,"date":"2025-10-05T08:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T08:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/475461\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T08:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T08:38:12","slug":"air-india-plane-forced-into-emergency-landing-at-birmingham-airport-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/475461\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India plane forced into emergency landing at Birmingham Airport | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Air India Boeing Dreamliner flying Amritsar to <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Birmingham\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/birmingham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> has been grounded after its emergency turbine deployed mid-descent on Saturday, it has been reported. \u201cThe landing was safe in Birmingham. All electrical and hydraulic components were found to be working normally,&#8221; Air India was quoted as saying in Indian media. The Ram Air Turbine (RAT) system is a fan-like device which automatically deploys when aircrafts lose power, instead using incoming wind as a way to generate emergency energy.<\/p>\n<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">The aircraft was the same model as the one involved in the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Air India plane crash\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/air-india-plane-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">horror Ahmedabad plane crash<\/a> in June, which killed all crew members and all but one of its 230 passengers moments after the RAT system was similarly deployed. Air India confirmed that the Amritsar-Birmingham flight&#8217;s electrical and hydraulic systems were functioning as normal upon landing but the jet has nonetheless been grounded for further inspection.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Air India said: &#8220;The operating crew of flight AI117 from Amritsar to Birmingham on October 4 detected deployment of the Ram Air Turbine (RAT) of the aircraft during its final approach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All electrical and hydraulic parameters were found normal, and the aircraft performed a safe landing at Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The aircraft has been grounded for further checks and consequently, AI114 from Birmingham to Delhi has been cancelled and alternative arrangements are being made to accommodate the guests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At Air India, the safety of passengers and crew remains top priority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It comes months after a London-bound Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed into a medical college in Ahmedabad just seconds after taking off from the city&#8217;s airport on June 12.<\/p>\n<p>241 people onboard were killed, including 169 Indian passengers and 52 British nationals, making it one of the deadliest plane crashes in history in terms of British fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside those onboard, another 19 people died and 67 were seriously injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Air India Boeing Dreamliner flying Amritsar to Birmingham has been grounded after its emergency turbine deployed mid-descent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[73568,855,12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-475461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-air-india-plane-crash","9":"tag-birmingham","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115320658676147799","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}