New Delhi, June 13 -- India's aviation regulator DGCA has ordered Air India to carry out rigorous safety inspections on its Boeing 787-8 and 787-9 fleet, following the catastrophic crash of a London-bound Dreamliner in Ahmedabad on June 12 that claimed over 260 lives, marking the world's worst aviation tragedy in ten years, media reports said.

In its directive issued on Friday, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) asked the airline to conduct enhanced checks of critical aircraft systems and to review take-off parameters across the Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet.

DGCA has now asked the airline to initiate "additional maintenance actions" for all B787s equipped with these engines.

The June 12 crash is the first ever fatal accide...