{"id":477351,"date":"2022-03-22T10:44:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T05:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=477351"},"modified":"2022-03-22T10:44:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T05:14:55","slug":"dgca-puts-boeing-737-fleet-on-enhanced-surveillance-after-deadly-crash-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-puts-boeing-737-fleet-on-enhanced-surveillance-after-deadly-crash-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA puts Boeing 737 fleet on enhanced surveillance after deadly crash in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Monday put the Boeing 737 fleet of Indian carriers on \u201cenhanced surveillance\u201d hours after an aircraft of the same design (Boeing 737-800) of the China Eastern Airlines crashed in the southwestern Chinese province of Guangxi. The announcement was made by DGCA\u2019s chief Arun Kumar, according to news agency PTI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlight safety is serious business and we are closely studying the situation. In the interim, we are focusing on enhanced surveillance of our 737 fleets,\u201d Kumar told PTI.<\/p>\n<p>He was responding to questions on steps the DGCA would take after Monday\u2019s air tragedy in China. At present, three airlines in India &#8212; SpiceJet, Vistara and Air India Express &#8212; have Boeing 737 aircraft in their fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Monday put the Boeing 737 fleet of Indian carriers on \u201cenhanced surveillance\u201d hours after an aircraft of the same design (Boeing 737-800) of the China Eastern Airlines crashed in the southwestern Chinese province of Guangxi. The announcement was made by DGCA\u2019s chief Arun Kumar, according to news agency PTI. \u201cFlight safety is serious business and we are closely studying the situation. In the interim, we are focusing on enhanced surveillance of our 737 fleets,\u201d Kumar told PTI. He was responding to questions on steps the DGCA would take after Monday\u2019s air tragedy [&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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477351","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=477351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}