An IndiGo flight bound from Mumbai suffered a tail strike while landing at the Nagpur airport recently. “On 14th April 2023, flight 6E 203, from Mumbai had a tail strike while landing at Nagpur. The aircraft was declared grounded at Nagpur airport for assessment and repairs. The incident is being investigated in detail,” IndiGo said […]
Category: Civil Aviation
Jet Airways case: HC permits Anita Goyal to travel abroad for a month to visit son
The Bombay High Court (HC) on Tuesday pulled up the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO), pointing out that there was “no logical end” to their ongoing “endless investigation” which had commenced against Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal and wife Anita Goyal in 2019. While the bench permitted Anita Goyal to travel abroad to Dubai, as […]
Full emergency at Delhi airport as Air India flight lands with crack in windshield
Full emergency was declared at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on Tuesday for a Delhi-bound Air India flight owing to a glitch, a source said. The flight had 180 passengers on board. Air India, in a statement, said that its flight AI858 operating on Pune-Delhi route landed ahead of its scheduled time following a minor […]
French court clears Air France, Airbus over Rio-Paris plane crash
A French court on Monday cleared European planemaker Airbus and Air France of “involuntary manslaughter,” almost 14 years after an airliner ploughed into the Atlantic en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, killing everyone on board. The ruling follows a historic public trial over the disappearance of AF447 in an equatorial storm on June […]
Suspected contraband parcels sent 72 times in 6 months via air cargo
Amid an investigation over ephedrine worth Rs 8 crore allegedly being smuggled via air cargo to Australia and the United Kingdom, the Mumbai Crime Branch has come across an important detail. In six months preceding the arrests in the case, there were nearly 72 instances when such contraband is believed to have been sent abroad, […]
Air India revamps compensation structure for pilots, cabin crew
Air India on Monday said it has revamped the compensation structure for pilots and cabin crew, including increasing the per-hour flying rate for pilots. Under the new structure, part of the Tata Group-owned airline’s five-year transformation plan, salaries will be hiked for more than 2,700 pilots across Air India and AIX Connect (including Air Asia […]
Air traffic increases by 14% per week at Mumbai airport this summer
The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) on Thursday announced its summer schedule, which has 14% more weekly flights compared to the summer of 2022. The summer schedule, which started on March 26, will remain in effect till October 28 this year. Increased demand for domestic and international travel movement from CSMIA has fueled the […]
Airline staffer dies after falling off ladder while deboarding plane at Pune Airport; probe launched
A security agent working with airline AIX Connect, formerly known as Air Asia, lost his life after falling while deboarding a plane from its rear door at Pune airport on Thursday. The airline said that it has launched an investigation and is in contact with the deceased staff’s family to provide support. The incident happened […]
After 2019 Balakot strikes: Military court recommends IAF officer’s dismissal for shooting down chopper
A military court in Delhi has recommended dismissal of an IAF officer for shooting down a Mi-17 helicopter in February 2019 in the aftermath of the Balakot airstrikes, which killed seven people, including six IAF personnel. The findings of the General Court Martial (GCM) and the sentence against Group Captain Suman Roy Chowdhury, who was […]
Unruly passengers: DGCA issues advisory to airlines, reiterates norms to deal with such incidents
Aviation regulator DGCA on Monday issued an advisory to airlines reiterating the existing provisions in place to deal with unruly passengers. The advisory comes against the backdrop of rising incidents of unruly passengers onboard flights and also on a day when a male passenger was deboarded by Air India from a Delhi-London flight for causing […]
AI’s Delhi-San Francisco plane suffers tech issue before take off; airline replaces aircraft
An Air India aircraft that was to operate a flight from the national capital to San Francisco suffered a technical issue before take off and returned to the stand on Monday morning, sources said. The airline replaced the aircraft and later the flight took off for San Francisco. There were little over 200 passengers onboard, […]
Passenger ‘assaults’ women crew on Air India flight, booked
The Delhi Police has detained a 25-year-old man for allegedly misbehaving with and assaulting crew on a London-bound Air India flight Monday. The incident took place shortly after the plane took off from the Delhi International Airport. The man, Jaskirat Singh Padda, hailing from Kapurthala in Punjab, was travelling with his parents. Police said an […]