{"id":459950,"date":"2022-01-03T11:28:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T05:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=459950"},"modified":"2022-01-03T11:28:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T05:58:57","slug":"spicejet-flight-takes-off-before-atc-nod-dgca-probes-lapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/spicejet-flight-takes-off-before-atc-nod-dgca-probes-lapse\/","title":{"rendered":"SpiceJet flight takes off before ATC nod, DGCA probes lapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The last year ended on a dramatic note for Indian aviation with a passenger aircraft taking off without air traffic control (ATC) clearance. This incident happened when a SpiceJet flight took off from Rajkot for Delhi without the mandatory nod on the penultimate day of 2021 \u2014 December 30. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is probing this serious lapse.<br \/>\n\u201cA SpiceJet Q400 (VT-SUQ) operating Rajkot-Delhi as SJ-3703 on December 30, 2021 took off from Rajkot without ATC clearance. The pilots have been being off-rostered (taken off flying duty) pending investigation,\u201d said people in the know. A senior DGCA official said strict action would be taken against those found responsible for the lapse.<br \/>\nA SpiceJet spokesman said: \u201cPilots have been off-rostered pending an inquiry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The last year ended on a dramatic note for Indian aviation with a passenger aircraft taking off without air traffic control (ATC) clearance. This incident happened when a SpiceJet flight took off from Rajkot for Delhi without the mandatory nod on the penultimate day of 2021 \u2014 December 30. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is probing this serious lapse. \u201cA SpiceJet Q400 (VT-SUQ) operating Rajkot-Delhi as SJ-3703 on December 30, 2021 took off from Rajkot without ATC clearance. The pilots have been being off-rostered (taken off flying duty) pending investigation,\u201d said people in the know. A [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459950","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=459950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}