{"id":367359,"date":"2020-08-11T10:35:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T05:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=367359"},"modified":"2020-08-11T11:33:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T06:03:26","slug":"dgca-found-various-safety-lapses-at-calicut-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-found-various-safety-lapses-at-calicut-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA found various safety lapses at Calicut airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator DGCA had issued a show-cause notice to the director of the Kozhikode airport on July 11 last year after it found &#8220;various critical safety lapses&#8221;, officials said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation pointed to cracks on the runway, water stagnation and excessive rubber deposits among other lapses in its show-cause notice.<\/p>\n<p>The DGCA conducted the inspection after an Air India Express flight coming from Dammam in Saudi Arabia had a &#8220;tail strike&#8221; while landing at the Calicut (Kozhikode) airport on July 2 last year, an official said.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s crash of an Air Indian Express flight from Dubai occurred a little over a year later. Th plane, with 190 people on board overshot &#8220;runway 10&#8221; at the Calicut airport in heavy rain and went down 35 feet into a gorge before breaking into two pieces, killing at least 18 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator DGCA had issued a show-cause notice to the director of the Kozhikode airport on July 11 last year after it found &#8220;various critical safety lapses&#8221;, officials said on Saturday. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation pointed to cracks on the runway, water stagnation and excessive rubber deposits among other lapses in its show-cause notice. The DGCA conducted the inspection after an Air India Express flight coming from Dammam in Saudi Arabia had a &#8220;tail strike&#8221; while landing at the Calicut (Kozhikode) airport on July 2 last year, an official said. Friday\u2019s crash of an Air Indian Express flight [&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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367359","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=367359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}