Overview
- Notices dated December 29 cite flights AI-357 and AI-358 on the Delhi–Tokyo route and focus on Boeing 787-8 VT-ANI.
- DGCA alleges dispatch with incompatible Minimum Equipment List items in contravention of Civil Aviation Requirements.
- During AI-358, crews received PACK ACM L and Pack Mode advisories and a smell of smoke was reported near the R2 door.
- Records show similar defects across five prior sectors, including a June 28 operation that later drew an MEL non-compliance finding for a recirculation fan and led to a diversion due to warm cabin conditions.
- Air India and the named pilots must reply within 14 days or face possible enforcement under Aircraft Rules and CAR, and the airline has not issued an immediate public comment.