{"id":281751,"date":"2019-07-12T04:59:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T04:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=281751"},"modified":"2019-07-12T04:59:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T04:59:45","slug":"regulator-asks-major-airports-to-acquire-aircraft-recovery-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/regulator-asks-major-airports-to-acquire-aircraft-recovery-kits\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulator asks major airports to acquire aircraft recovery kits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Perturbed by the partial closure of Mumbai airport for about four days after a SpiceJet aircraft overshot the runway into the mud, leading to the cancellation of hundreds of flights, the aviation regulator has asked airport operators to buy additional equipment to retrieve stuck aircraft. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot be the world\u2019s third largest aviation market and not have the capability to retrieve an aircraft for 90 hours,\u201d said a senior Directorate General of Civil Aviation official who did not want to be identified. \u201cWe will soon have such equipment at six airports to avoid a repeat of long closures.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Perturbed by the partial closure of Mumbai airport for about four days after a SpiceJet aircraft overshot the runway into the mud, leading to the cancellation of hundreds of flights, the aviation regulator has asked airport operators to buy additional equipment to retrieve stuck aircraft. \u201cWe cannot be the world\u2019s third largest aviation market and not have the capability to retrieve an aircraft for 90 hours,\u201d said a senior Directorate General of Civil Aviation official who did not want to be identified. \u201cWe will soon have such equipment at six airports to avoid a repeat of long closures.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281751","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}