{"id":398852,"date":"2021-02-03T12:13:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T06:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=398852"},"modified":"2021-02-03T12:13:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T06:43:02","slug":"spicejet-flight-carrying-west-bengal-dgp-virendra-makes-emergency-landing-at-kolkata-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/spicejet-flight-carrying-west-bengal-dgp-virendra-makes-emergency-landing-at-kolkata-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Spicejet flight carrying West Bengal DGP Virendra makes emergency landing at Kolkata airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: A Spicejet flight had to make an emergency landing at the Kolkata airport on Monday evening within minutes of take off after a technical glitch was detected mid-air, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Airport sources said that there were 69 people on the Bagdogra-bound plane SG- 275, including West Bengal DGP Virendra and the state&#8217;s security advisor Surajit Kar Purkayastha. &#8220;All the passengers and crew members are safe,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said that soon after the take off, minor smoke was seen in the cabin and the fire alarm went off. &#8220;The pilots contacted Air Traffic Control (ATC) and made the emergency landing safely. An investigation is underway to ascertain the exact cause of the glitch,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: A Spicejet flight had to make an emergency landing at the Kolkata airport on Monday evening within minutes of take off after a technical glitch was detected mid-air, sources said. Airport sources said that there were 69 people on the Bagdogra-bound plane SG- 275, including West Bengal DGP Virendra and the state&#8217;s security advisor Surajit Kar Purkayastha. &#8220;All the passengers and crew members are safe,&#8221; they said. Sources said that soon after the take off, minor smoke was seen in the cabin and the fire alarm went off. &#8220;The pilots contacted Air Traffic Control (ATC) and made the emergency [&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":[208,130,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398852","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=398852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}