{"id":299220,"date":"2019-11-02T12:46:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T07:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=299220"},"modified":"2019-11-02T12:46:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T07:16:19","slug":"dgca%e2%80%8aasks%e2%80%8aindigo-to-replace-pw-engines-on-97-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca%e2%80%8aasks%e2%80%8aindigo-to-replace-pw-engines-on-97-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA\u200aasks\u200aIndiGo to replace P&amp;W engines on 97 jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Friday directed budget carrier IndiGo to replace older Pratt and Whitney (P&amp;W) engines on 97 Airbus A320neo planes by January 31 following a series of engine incidents over the past week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast one week has witnessed four air turn back\/inflight shut down and has caused serious concern and resultant disruption. This situation cannot be allowed to go on indefinitely,\u201d said DGCA director general Arun Kumar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, after considerable deliberations, it has been decided that all aircraft in your fleet numbering 97 as on date, need to be placed with modified low pressure turbine (LPT) for both the engines.\u201d \u201cIt has been further decided that the operator must ensure that all these aircraft are provided with modified LPT by January 31, 2020, at all costs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Friday directed budget carrier IndiGo to replace older Pratt and Whitney (P&amp;W) engines on 97 Airbus A320neo planes by January 31 following a series of engine incidents over the past week. \u201cLast one week has witnessed four air turn back\/inflight shut down and has caused serious concern and resultant disruption. This situation cannot be allowed to go on indefinitely,\u201d said DGCA director general Arun Kumar. \u201cTherefore, after considerable deliberations, it has been decided that all aircraft in your fleet numbering 97 as on date, need to be placed with modified low pressure [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299220","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=299220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}