{"id":263746,"date":"2019-03-12T06:53:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T06:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=263746"},"modified":"2019-03-12T06:53:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T06:53:12","slug":"dgca-to-conduct-safety-assessment-of-b737-max-planes-operational-in-india-prabhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-to-conduct-safety-assessment-of-b737-max-planes-operational-in-india-prabhu\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA to conduct safety assessment of B737 MAX planes operational in India: Prabhu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu has asked aviation watchdog DGCA to undertake safety assessment of Boeing 737 MAX planes operated by domestic airlines.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, the regulator is undertaking a detailed technical evaluation and consulting with safety regulators around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The latest moves come a day after a 737 MAX aircraft, operated by Ethiopian Airlines, crashed killing 157 people.<\/p>\n<p>Jet Airways and SpiceJet have 737 MAX aircraft in their fleet.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet on Monday, Prabhu said he has directed officials of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to undertake &#8220;safety assessment&#8221; of Boeing 737-MAX planes being flown by domestic carriers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu has asked aviation watchdog DGCA to undertake safety assessment of Boeing 737 MAX planes operated by domestic airlines. Besides, the regulator is undertaking a detailed technical evaluation and consulting with safety regulators around the world. The latest moves come a day after a 737 MAX aircraft, operated by Ethiopian Airlines, crashed killing 157 people. Jet Airways and SpiceJet have 737 MAX aircraft in their fleet. In a tweet on Monday, Prabhu said he has directed officials of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to undertake &#8220;safety assessment&#8221; of Boeing 737-MAX planes being flown by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}