{"id":299145,"date":"2019-11-02T11:34:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T06:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=299145"},"modified":"2019-11-02T11:40:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T06:10:58","slug":"false-fire-alarm-forces-indigo-pilots-to-declare-emergency-mid-air-land-back-at-chennai-airport-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/false-fire-alarm-forces-indigo-pilots-to-declare-emergency-mid-air-land-back-at-chennai-airport-2\/","title":{"rendered":"False fire alarm forces IndiGo pilots to declare emergency mid-air, land back at Chennai airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Pilots flying the IndiGoNSE -1.25 %&#8217;s Chennai-Kuwait flight declared emergency in the early hours of Friday and landed back at the Chennai airport soon after the departure due to a fire alarm, which later turned out to be false, said a source. The A320neo plane had taken off around 1.20 am with more than 160 passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Just 15 minutes after the departure, the pilots observed a fire alarm and immediately relayed the emergency code 7700 to all Air Traffic Controls, said a source privy to the development.<\/p>\n<p>The fire alarm was later found to be because of faulty smoke detectors in cargo compartment, the source said.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson of the airline said, &#8220;IndiGo A320 was operating Chennai-Kuwait 6E-1751. After take-off from Chennai, the pilot observed a momentary message of the smoke detector in the cargo compartment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Pilots flying the IndiGoNSE -1.25 %&#8217;s Chennai-Kuwait flight declared emergency in the early hours of Friday and landed back at the Chennai airport soon after the departure due to a fire alarm, which later turned out to be false, said a source. The A320neo plane had taken off around 1.20 am with more than 160 passengers. Just 15 minutes after the departure, the pilots observed a fire alarm and immediately relayed the emergency code 7700 to all Air Traffic Controls, said a source privy to the development. The fire alarm was later found to be because of faulty [&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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299145","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\/299145","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=299145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}