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An Indonesia AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea in 2014 killing all on board had carried thousands of Australian passengers while flying with a mechanical fault for the 12 months before the tragedy. Aviation experts were asked by Foreign Correspondent to track the plane 12 months before the crash while it had the mechanical fault. The details of the aircraft's flight path over that period have been uncovered with disturbing questions raised about the role of Indonesia's aviation regulator, including allegations of corruption. There are now calls for the Indonesian arms of AirAsia to be suspended from flying to Australia until they pass an international safety audit. Perth-based aviation expert Geoffrey Thomas said airlines like Qantas would never a fly a plane with that sort of defect. "I believe there's evidence around that some airlines that fly to Australia don't meet international standards and they should be banned," he said. "It's simply not good enough that you've got aeroplanes flying around with potentially catastrophic faults with them."<br/>

InterGlobe Aviation, the operator of India’s biggest airline IndiGo, slid the most in two months after President Aditya Ghosh told analysts that a cooling issue faced by some engines powering the A320neo jets has the potential to hurt the carrier’s low-cost model. Shares of the company fell 4.7% to 1,025.30 rupees in Mumbai, their biggest decline since March 9. The stock has dropped 17% this year compared with a 2.6% loss for the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex. The budget airline, which has placed an order with Airbus Group SE for 430 of its fuel-efficient single-aisle A320neo jets, has faced delivery delays for the first batch of the aircraft as engine maker Pratt & Whitney grapples with a technical issue. IndiGo will consider switching to rival CFM International Inc.’s power plants for later orders, Ghosh told analysts on Friday. The carrier is set to take delivery of 24 jets with Pratt engines by March, 2017, he said.<br/>