{"id":477195,"date":"2022-03-22T08:50:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T03:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=477195"},"modified":"2022-03-22T09:20:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T03:50:22","slug":"dgca-puts-boeing-737-on-enhanced-surveillance-after-china-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-puts-boeing-737-on-enhanced-surveillance-after-china-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA puts Boeing 737 on &#8216;enhanced surveillance&#8217; after China plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DGCA has put the Boeing 737 fleets of Indian carriers on &#8220;enhanced surveillance&#8221; after a China Eastern Airlines aircraft of the same make crashed on Monday with 132 people on board, its chief Arun Kumar said.<\/p>\n<p>Three Indian carriers &#8212; SpiceJet, Vistara and Air India Express &#8212; have Boeing 737 aircraft in their fleets.<\/p>\n<p>When asked what steps the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is taking following Monday&#8217;s crash, Kumar told PTI, &#8220;Flight safety is serious business and we are closely studying the situation. In the interim, we are focusing on enhanced surveillance of our 737 fleet.&#8221; A Boeing 737-800 aircraft of China Eastern Airlines, which was on way from Kunming to Guangzhou, crashed in Tengxian County in the city of Wuzhou.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DGCA has put the Boeing 737 fleets of Indian carriers on &#8220;enhanced surveillance&#8221; after a China Eastern Airlines aircraft of the same make crashed on Monday with 132 people on board, its chief Arun Kumar said. Three Indian carriers &#8212; SpiceJet, Vistara and Air India Express &#8212; have Boeing 737 aircraft in their fleets. When asked what steps the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is taking following Monday&#8217;s crash, Kumar told PTI, &#8220;Flight safety is serious business and we are closely studying the situation. In the interim, we are focusing on enhanced surveillance of our 737 fleet.&#8221; A [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477195","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=477195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}