June 18 (Reuters) - Air India Chairman N. Chandrasekaran

said on Wednesday that Air India's Boeing Dreamliner flight that

crashed with 242 people on board last week had a clean engine

history.

In an interview with Indian broadcaster Times Now,

Chandrasekaran said Air India flight 171's right engine was new

and installed in March 2025, and that the left engine was last

serviced in 2023.

The Dreamliner was fitted with GE Aerospace's GEnx

engines.

The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner bound for Gatwick Airport south

of London began losing altitude seconds after takeoff from

India's Ahmedabad. All but one of the passengers were killed in

the world's worst aviation disaster in a decade, with around 30

fatalities on the ground.