{"id":303951,"date":"2019-12-03T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T06:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=303951"},"modified":"2019-12-03T12:00:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T06:30:40","slug":"pw-engine-on-indigos-a320neo-aircraft-suffers-snag-on-chennai-hyderabad-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pw-engine-on-indigos-a320neo-aircraft-suffers-snag-on-chennai-hyderabad-route\/","title":{"rendered":"PW engine on IndiGo\u2019s A320neo aircraft suffers snag on Chennai-Hyderabad route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pratt and Whitney (PW) engine on IndiGo\u2019s A320neo aircraft, which was heading from Chennai to Hyderabad on Monday, suffered a snag, according to a source privy to the development. \u201cThe A320neo aircraft, which had the call sign 6E-6215, landed safely in Hyderabad. High vibration was observed in the second PW engine post-landing,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, IndiGo said, \u201cFlight 6E-6215 was operating from Chennai \u2013 Hyderabad on Dec 2. Post arrival at Hyderabad, the pilot reported a momentary engine vibration caution during flight. The aircraft was withdrawn from operations. Necessary maintenance checks are in progress.\u201d The source said the affected PW engine would be replaced. Aviation regulator DGCA on November 25 had instructed IndiGo to ground an old A320neo family aircraft with an unmodified PW engine for every new A320neo plane added to its fleet to prevent large-scale cancellation of flights from January 31 onwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pratt and Whitney (PW) engine on IndiGo\u2019s A320neo aircraft, which was heading from Chennai to Hyderabad on Monday, suffered a snag, according to a source privy to the development. \u201cThe A320neo aircraft, which had the call sign 6E-6215, landed safely in Hyderabad. High vibration was observed in the second PW engine post-landing,\u201d the source said. In a statement, IndiGo said, \u201cFlight 6E-6215 was operating from Chennai \u2013 Hyderabad on Dec 2. Post arrival at Hyderabad, the pilot reported a momentary engine vibration caution during flight. The aircraft was withdrawn from operations. Necessary maintenance checks are in progress.\u201d The source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303951","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}