{"id":494836,"date":"2022-05-31T09:01:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T03:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=494836"},"modified":"2022-05-31T09:37:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T04:07:35","slug":"dgca-fines-spicejet-rs-10-lakh-for-training-pilots-on-faulty-simulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-fines-spicejet-rs-10-lakh-for-training-pilots-on-faulty-simulator\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA fines SpiceJet Rs 10 lakh for training pilots on faulty simulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Monday imposed a Rs 10-lakh fine on SpiceJet for training 737 Max aircraft\u2019s pilots on a faulty simulator.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the DGCA had barred 90 SpiceJet pilots from flying B737 Max aircraft. The pilots will have to be retrained, the regulator had ordered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTraining being imparted by SpiceJet could have adversely affected flight safety and was nullified,\u201d the regulator said.<\/p>\n<p>This happened within eight months of the DGCA lifting a ban on Boeing 737 Max aircraft. While it was grounded worldwide from March 2019 to December 2020 following two crashes \u2014 in Indonesia and Ethiopia \u2014 killing 346, DGCA lifted the ban much later in August last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Monday imposed a Rs 10-lakh fine on SpiceJet for training 737 Max aircraft\u2019s pilots on a faulty simulator. Earlier, the DGCA had barred 90 SpiceJet pilots from flying B737 Max aircraft. The pilots will have to be retrained, the regulator had ordered. \u201cTraining being imparted by SpiceJet could have adversely affected flight safety and was nullified,\u201d the regulator said. This happened within eight months of the DGCA lifting a ban on Boeing 737 Max aircraft. While it was grounded worldwide from March 2019 to December 2020 following two crashes \u2014 in Indonesia [&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-494836","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\/494836","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=494836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}