{"id":354505,"date":"2020-05-30T11:37:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T06:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=354505"},"modified":"2020-05-30T11:54:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T06:24:43","slug":"dgca-says-locusts-are-a-threat-to-aircraft-issues-guidelines-for-safe-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-says-locusts-are-a-threat-to-aircraft-issues-guidelines-for-safe-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA says locusts are a threat to aircraft, issues guidelines for safe flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recognising the highest ever locust activity in the last 20 years, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) issued a circular Friday \u201cstrongly advising\u201d flights to avoid flying through any known locust swarms.<\/p>\n<p>According to the circular, flying through a swarm can cause problems for aircraft at the time of landing and takeoff with all the air inlets of an aircraft, including engines, air conditioning packs, etc, prone to being damaged by the insects. They are hazardous to an aircraft\u2019s systems even when it is parked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile damage to agriculture and crops by locust swarms is well known, the objective of this operations circular is to get aviation fraternity aware of the risks posed by locust swarms and the need to avoid flying through a swarm,\u201d the DGCA noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recognising the highest ever locust activity in the last 20 years, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) issued a circular Friday \u201cstrongly advising\u201d flights to avoid flying through any known locust swarms. According to the circular, flying through a swarm can cause problems for aircraft at the time of landing and takeoff with all the air inlets of an aircraft, including engines, air conditioning packs, etc, prone to being damaged by the insects. They are hazardous to an aircraft\u2019s systems even when it is parked. \u201cWhile damage to agriculture and crops by locust swarms is well known, the objective [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354505","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=354505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}