<p>An Air India Dreamliner on a Paris-to-Delhi flight had to be grounded shortly before take-off Saturday night after it developed a technical snag, an official here said on Sunday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>An airline official said the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, operating flight AI-142, had to be grounded at Charles de Gaulle airport “due to a spoiler problem”. All the 236 passengers, onboard the plane, have been given hotel-accommodation and will be flown to Delhi at the earliest, the official said. <br /><br />Spoilers are small speed retarding devices fitted on the aircraft wings that operate during take-off and landing.<br /><br />There have been a spate of incidents involving the Dreamliner since Air India inducted a fleet of 12 of these wide-bodied planes rated as the world’s most advanced commercial aircraft.<br /><br />Earlier this week, AI chairman Rohit Nandan said at the India Aviation 2014 event in Hyderabad, that Air India have no plans to ground their 256-seat capacity Dreamliners as they were serving the airline well and there were no safety issues.<br /><br /> He said the functioning and performance of Dreamliners was being jointly monitored by a committee and Boeing, and the final report would be placed after 18 months of their use.<br /><br />The 13th Dreamliner inducted into Air India’s fleet came in from the US on Tuesday.<br /></p>
<p>An Air India Dreamliner on a Paris-to-Delhi flight had to be grounded shortly before take-off Saturday night after it developed a technical snag, an official here said on Sunday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>An airline official said the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, operating flight AI-142, had to be grounded at Charles de Gaulle airport “due to a spoiler problem”. All the 236 passengers, onboard the plane, have been given hotel-accommodation and will be flown to Delhi at the earliest, the official said. <br /><br />Spoilers are small speed retarding devices fitted on the aircraft wings that operate during take-off and landing.<br /><br />There have been a spate of incidents involving the Dreamliner since Air India inducted a fleet of 12 of these wide-bodied planes rated as the world’s most advanced commercial aircraft.<br /><br />Earlier this week, AI chairman Rohit Nandan said at the India Aviation 2014 event in Hyderabad, that Air India have no plans to ground their 256-seat capacity Dreamliners as they were serving the airline well and there were no safety issues.<br /><br /> He said the functioning and performance of Dreamliners was being jointly monitored by a committee and Boeing, and the final report would be placed after 18 months of their use.<br /><br />The 13th Dreamliner inducted into Air India’s fleet came in from the US on Tuesday.<br /></p>