{"id":287058,"date":"2019-08-13T04:42:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T04:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=287058"},"modified":"2019-08-13T05:01:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T05:01:34","slug":"two-spicejet-pilots-get-1-year-suspension-for-overshooting-mumbai-runway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/two-spicejet-pilots-get-1-year-suspension-for-overshooting-mumbai-runway\/","title":{"rendered":"Two SpiceJet pilots get 1-year suspension for overshooting Mumbai runway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator DGCA on Saturday suspended two SpiceJet pilots for a year as their B737 aircraft made a late touchdown at the Mumbai airport overshooting the runway on July 2, sources said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The DGCA found that SpiceJet&#8217;s Coimbatore-Mumbai flight, which was being flown by the two pilots &#8212; Captain Karun Gujral and Captain Arpit Gandhi &#8212; on July 2, touched down approximately 4,462 feet from the runway threshold. This led to runway overrun,&#8221; one of the sources told PTI. <\/p>\n<p>The runway threshold area is the point from where the runway begins. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The B737 aircraft flown by these two pilots was floating for a long time before touchdown, the DGCA found in its investigation,&#8221; the source added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator DGCA on Saturday suspended two SpiceJet pilots for a year as their B737 aircraft made a late touchdown at the Mumbai airport overshooting the runway on July 2, sources said. &#8220;The DGCA found that SpiceJet&#8217;s Coimbatore-Mumbai flight, which was being flown by the two pilots &#8212; Captain Karun Gujral and Captain Arpit Gandhi &#8212; on July 2, touched down approximately 4,462 feet from the runway threshold. This led to runway overrun,&#8221; one of the sources told PTI. The runway threshold area is the point from where the runway begins. &#8220;The B737 aircraft flown by these two pilots was [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287058","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=287058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}