{"id":499571,"date":"2022-06-20T12:02:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T06:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=499571"},"modified":"2022-06-20T12:02:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T06:32:52","slug":"bird-hit-or-technical-fault-what-led-to-mid-air-fire-on-spicejet-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bird-hit-or-technical-fault-what-led-to-mid-air-fire-on-spicejet-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird hit or technical fault? What led to mid-air fire on SpiceJet plane?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A SpiceJet Patna-Delhi flight made an emergency landing at Patna&#8217;s Jay Prakash Narayan International Airport on Sunday afternoon after a fire was reported on board. All passengers and crew &#8211; over 190 people in total, including two infants &#8211; are safe and no injuries have been reported.  The cause of the fire is not yet known &#8211; it is believed it was either due to a bird hit or a technical fault. <\/p>\n<p>Patna district magistrate Chandrashekhar Singh confirmed that the plane had landed safely &#8216;after smoke was noticed from one of the left engines&#8230; possibly after a bird hit or a technical fault&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>When did the plane take-off?<\/p>\n<p>The plane &#8211; a fully-fuelled Boeing 737-800 &#8211; took off around noon from Patna airport. It was scheduled to reach Delhi&#8217;s Indira Gandhi airport at 1.30 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpiceJet Patna-Delhi flight made an emergency landing at Patna&#8217;s Jay Prakash Narayan International Airport on Sunday afternoon after a fire was reported on board. All passengers and crew &#8211; over 190 people in total, including two infants &#8211; are safe and no injuries have been reported. The cause of the fire is not yet known &#8211; it is believed it was either due to a bird hit or a technical fault. Patna district magistrate Chandrashekhar Singh confirmed that the plane had landed safely &#8216;after smoke was noticed from one of the left engines&#8230; possibly after a bird hit or [&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-499571","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\/499571","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=499571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}