{"id":290633,"date":"2019-09-06T04:46:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T04:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=290633"},"modified":"2019-09-06T04:46:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T04:46:18","slug":"dgca-suspends-2-indigo-pilots-for-flying-plane-with-tail-support-attached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-suspends-2-indigo-pilots-for-flying-plane-with-tail-support-attached\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA suspends 2 IndiGo pilots for flying plane with tail support attached"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator DGCA on Thursday suspended two IndiGo pilots for two months for flying a Hyderabad-Vijaywada flight on July 24 with the tail support attached even though they were informed about it by the Air Traffic Control (ATC) immediately after take-off, an official said. <\/p>\n<p>The period of suspension would be from July 24. <\/p>\n<p>During loading or unloading of any kind of cargo in an aircraft, the tail support or &#8216;tail prop&#8217; is used to prevent the plane from tipping over backwards. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The pilots &#8212; Captain Amit Bansal and Captain Bharat Saini &#8212; were informed by the ATC immediately after take-off that their tail prop is still attached to their ATR-72 aircraft. However, the pilots decided to keep flying towards Vijaywada instead of returning,&#8221; the official of Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator DGCA on Thursday suspended two IndiGo pilots for two months for flying a Hyderabad-Vijaywada flight on July 24 with the tail support attached even though they were informed about it by the Air Traffic Control (ATC) immediately after take-off, an official said. The period of suspension would be from July 24. During loading or unloading of any kind of cargo in an aircraft, the tail support or &#8216;tail prop&#8217; is used to prevent the plane from tipping over backwards. &#8220;The pilots &#8212; Captain Amit Bansal and Captain Bharat Saini &#8212; were informed by the ATC immediately after take-off [&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-290633","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\/290633","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=290633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}