Pratt and Whitney's A320 engines under Indian regulator's scanner

Regulator may partially ground the fleet after three malfunction reported recently

Airbus’ most popular single-aisle jet model A320 Neo with Pratt and Whitney engines faces a fresh probe from the highest ministerial level, as one more incident of a mid-air engine failure was reported on Saturday. A320 neo is the workhorse of India’s largest airline IndiGo and Go Air and together they have more than 500 such planes on order.

Minister of State for civil aviation, Jayant Sinha, has called for meeting to review the operations of the engines and to decide whether they pose any threat to passenger safety.

The meeting has been as called, as an IndiGo aircraft while