{"id":310310,"date":"2020-01-14T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T06:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=310310"},"modified":"2020-01-14T12:00:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T06:30:56","slug":"air-safety-watchdog-extends-deadline-for-indigo-to-replace-pratt-whitney-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-safety-watchdog-extends-deadline-for-indigo-to-replace-pratt-whitney-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"Air safety watchdog extends deadline for IndiGo to replace Pratt &amp; Whitney engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s aviation regulator has given IndiGo more time to replace the Pratt &amp; Whitney engines on its fleet of Airbus A320neo planes which have been linked to in-flight engine shutdowns, a statement released by the watchdog said on Monday. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in November said IndiGo, the country\u2019s largest airline, must replace the engines by January 31, after four incidents of in-flight engine shutdowns within a week caused \u201cserious concern\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The DGCA has now given IndiGo until May 31, saying that while the regulator was obliged to set up a tight deadline it was also intended to \u201cspur frenetic action on the part of all stakeholders\u201d. \u201cThe airline and the aircraft and the engine manufacturer have made significant efforts towards completion of the task,\u201d it said in the statement, adding that they had submitted a detailed plan to the regulator for procuring the 135 replacement engines still required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s aviation regulator has given IndiGo more time to replace the Pratt &amp; Whitney engines on its fleet of Airbus A320neo planes which have been linked to in-flight engine shutdowns, a statement released by the watchdog said on Monday. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in November said IndiGo, the country\u2019s largest airline, must replace the engines by January 31, after four incidents of in-flight engine shutdowns within a week caused \u201cserious concern\u201d. The DGCA has now given IndiGo until May 31, saying that while the regulator was obliged to set up a tight deadline it was also intended [&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":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310310","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\/310310","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=310310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}