SpiceJet Mumbai-Kandla flight aborts take-off

NEW DELHI: A day after SpiceJet was ordered to operate half of its approved schedule, its Mumbai-Kandla flight aborted take-off at Mumbai on Thursday after getting a caution alert. The aircraft safely returned to the bay and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is examining the issue.
“A Q400 aircraft scheduled to operate from Mumbai to Kandla rejected take-off owing to illumination of a caution alert. Crew acted as per the standard operating procedure. There was no safety scare. The aircraft returned to the bay, and all passengers and crew safely deboarded,” said an airline spokesperson.
After analysing a spate of incidents on SpiceJet flights over a month back, the DGCA, in an interim order on Wednesday, had asked the airline to operate a truncated schedule —half of the allowed fights — this summer and that too under “enhanced surveillance”. The cash-strapped airline will be allowed to scale up operations only after proving that it has “sufficient technical support and financial resource to safely and efficiently undertake such enhanced capacity. ”