{"id":490521,"date":"2022-05-10T10:23:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T04:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=490521"},"modified":"2022-05-10T10:23:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T04:53:04","slug":"dgca-checks-cover-280-aircraft-cabin-in-a-week-find-cracked-toilet-seat-missing-handrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-checks-cover-280-aircraft-cabin-in-a-week-find-cracked-toilet-seat-missing-handrest\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA checks cover 280 aircraft cabin in a week; find cracked toilet seat, missing handrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation\u2019s (DGCA) recent decision to inspect cabin of aircraft being used by Indian carriers during night parking \u2014 first reported by TOI on May 5 \u2014 and random spot checks is leading to discovery of many deficiencies on some birds due to lack of timely repairs and replacements.<br \/>\nDGCA&#8217;s findings include an aircraft lav not marked unserviceable despite a cracked toilet seat, broken armrests and a \u201ctransparent tape arrangement\u201d on one seat to fill in for a missing armrest. It also found 6 infant life vests kept in a bag meant for life vests for adults.<br \/>\nDGCA teams have between May 2 and 8, 2022, inspected 112 aircraft \u2014 50 of SpiceJet and 62 of other Indian carriers \u2014 and carried out spot checks on an additional 168 aircraft \u2014 100 of SpiceJet; IndiGo (18); Vistara (17); Air India (11); GoAir (10); AirAsia India (9); Alliance Air (2) and Flybig (1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation\u2019s (DGCA) recent decision to inspect cabin of aircraft being used by Indian carriers during night parking \u2014 first reported by TOI on May 5 \u2014 and random spot checks is leading to discovery of many deficiencies on some birds due to lack of timely repairs and replacements. DGCA&#8217;s findings include an aircraft lav not marked unserviceable despite a cracked toilet seat, broken armrests and a \u201ctransparent tape arrangement\u201d on one seat to fill in for a missing armrest. It also found 6 infant life vests kept in a bag meant for life [&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-490521","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\/490521","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=490521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}