Budget carrier SpiceJet Tuesday said it has put in place all the additional precautionary measures issued by the aviation regulator following the crash of one such plane earlier this week. The Gurugram-based airline, which has 12 Boeing 737 Max 8 planes in its fleet, also said, it is \u201cactively engaged\u201d with the directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA) and the aircraft manufacturer on the issue.<\/p>\n
SpiceJet and Jet Airways are the only two domestic airlines which operate Boeing 737 Max 8 planes. \u201cWe are actively engaged with both Boeing and the DGCA and will continue to put safety first, as always,\u201d SpiceJet said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve already implemented all additional precautionary measures as directed by the DGCA Monday,\u201d the airline added. The 737 Max had two fatal crashes since October last, the latest being Ethiopian Airlines\u2019 crash this Sunday six minutes after takeoff killing all the 157 on-board, including four Indians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Budget carrier SpiceJet Tuesday said it has put in place all the additional precautionary measures issued by the aviation regulator following the crash of one such plane earlier this week. The Gurugram-based airline, which has 12 Boeing 737 Max 8 planes in its fleet, also said, it is \u201cactively engaged\u201d with the directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA) and the aircraft manufacturer on the issue. SpiceJet and Jet Airways are the only two domestic airlines which operate Boeing 737 Max 8 planes. \u201cWe are actively engaged with both Boeing and the DGCA and will continue to put safety first, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263902","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}