India, May 19 -- The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) will soon travel to plane maker Boeing's facility in Seattle to test the fuel control switches (FCS) panel from a Boeing 787 which operated between London's Heathrow airport and Bengaluru airport in February this year.

Air India ordered a precautionary fleet-wide reinspection of the FCS latch on its Boeing 787 aircraft after a pilot flagged a possible defect during operations on February 2. The aircraft, which the airline later grounded, operated flight AI132 and landed at Bengaluru with at least 200 people on board after which the issue was highlighted by the pilot in command (PIC) in the aircraft's logbook.

Two ministry officials confirmed the development and said, "The...