{"id":291600,"date":"2019-09-16T05:29:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T05:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=291600"},"modified":"2019-09-16T05:29:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T05:29:14","slug":"aviation-regulator-dgca-to-conduct-its-own-due-diligence-on-boeing-737-max-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/aviation-regulator-dgca-to-conduct-its-own-due-diligence-on-boeing-737-max-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Aviation regulator DGCA to conduct its own due diligence on Boeing 737 Max aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) will conduct its own due diligence before allowing the grounded Boeing 737 Max planes to fly on Indian skies even if the US aviation regulator, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), re-certifies the aircraft in near future, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told Mint.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s civil aviation regulator is also likely to make it mandatory for pilots operating the aircraft to undergo simulator training before allowing them to fly the aircraft, the person added, requesting anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>The Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, considered a more fuel-efficient plane than its predecessors, was grounded by the DGCA on 13 March after aviation regulators worldwide did the same following the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX near Addis Ababa on 10 March, killing 157 people, including four Indians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) will conduct its own due diligence before allowing the grounded Boeing 737 Max planes to fly on Indian skies even if the US aviation regulator, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), re-certifies the aircraft in near future, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told Mint. India&#8217;s civil aviation regulator is also likely to make it mandatory for pilots operating the aircraft to undergo simulator training before allowing them to fly the aircraft, the person added, requesting anonymity. The Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, considered a more fuel-efficient plane than its predecessors, [&hellip;]<\/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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291600","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\/291600","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=291600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}