{"id":264239,"date":"2019-03-14T06:54:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T06:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=264239"},"modified":"2019-03-14T06:56:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T06:56:22","slug":"boeing-737-max-grounding-govt-calls-meeting-at-4-pm-for-contingency-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeing-737-max-grounding-govt-calls-meeting-at-4-pm-for-contingency-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing 737 Max grounding: Govt calls meeting at 4 pm for contingency plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Civil Aviation Ministry will hold a meeting with airlines at 4 pm on Wednesday to prepare a contingency plan as a number of flights have been cancelled following the grounding of Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft, a senior government official said.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday night, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) announced its decision to &#8220;immediately&#8221; ground the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft that are currently being used by airline companies in India.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will ground all 737 Max 8 aircraft, which are currently in use by Indian airlines, by 4 pm today,&#8221; a DGCA official told PTI on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The decision came days after a 737 MAX 8 aircraft operated by the Ethiopian Airlines crashed near Addis Ababa killing 157 people, including four Indians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Civil Aviation Ministry will hold a meeting with airlines at 4 pm on Wednesday to prepare a contingency plan as a number of flights have been cancelled following the grounding of Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft, a senior government official said. On Tuesday night, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) announced its decision to &#8220;immediately&#8221; ground the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft that are currently being used by airline companies in India. &#8220;We will ground all 737 Max 8 aircraft, which are currently in use by Indian airlines, by 4 pm today,&#8221; a DGCA official told [&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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264239","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=264239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}