Archive · 11 Aug 2026
AI2379 Probe Widens After 300-Ft Drop Injures 17
An airplane called AI2379, flown by Air India, suddenly dropped 300 feet in the sky.
Because of the sudden drop, 17 people on the plane got hurt.
Now, grown-ups are trying to find out why it happened.
They are checking the pilot to see if he or she was healthy enough to fly.
Some tests on the pilot are making people worried.
But the group that speaks for pilots says we should wait before judging.
They say the test should not be considered 'positive' yet.
Everyone wants to know if the pilot, the plane, or the plane's systems made a mistake.
Until we know more, the investigation will keep going.
Air India flight AI2379 suffered a 300-foot altitude drop, leaving 17 people injured.
The probe into the incident is widening, according to the report.
The pilot's psychoactive substance (dope) test has raised alarm.
The pilots' representative body says the test should not yet be treated as positive.
Questions are being raised over whether the pilot, the aircraft, or a system failed.
- Who
- The pilot of Air India flight AI2379, whose psychoactive substance test has raised alarm, along with the 17 injured people and the pilots' body disputing the test result.
- What
- Flight AI2379 dropped 300 feet in altitude, injuring 17 people, and the widening probe is centring on the pilot's dope test.
- When
- Not specified in the articles.
- Where
- Not specified in the articles.
- Why
- To determine what went wrong aboard the flight, with questions raised over whether the pilot, the aircraft, or a system failed.
Pilots' Representative Body
Investigators and Concerned Observers
Pilot's psychoactive substance test
Pilots' Representative Body
The test should not yet be treated as positive.
Investigators and Concerned Observers
The test result has raised alarm and prompted questions over what went wrong aboard the flight.
- Flight
- AI2379
- Airline
- Air India
- Altitude drop
- 300 feet
- People injured
- 17
- Aircraft type
- Airbus
- Pilot's test
- Psychoactive substance (dope) test; result disputed
- Investigation status
- Probe widening
- Event type
- Aviation safety incident