{"id":499778,"date":"2022-06-21T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T04:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=499778"},"modified":"2022-06-21T10:31:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T05:01:14","slug":"four-wildlife-strikes-daily-in-2021-dgca-writes-to-aai-pvt-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/four-wildlife-strikes-daily-in-2021-dgca-writes-to-aai-pvt-operators\/","title":{"rendered":"Four \u2018wildlife strikes\u2019 daily in 2021; DGCA writes to AAI, pvt operators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEARLY FOUR \u201cwildlife strike\u201d incidents occurred every day near Indian airports last year, double from a little over two daily incidents in 2016, even as aircraft movement numbers for 2021 remained below the 2016 total, according to data sourced from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and Airports Authority of India (AAI).<\/p>\n<p>A \u201cwildlife strike\u201d means an aircraft either suffered a bird hit or was disrupted by an animal on the runway during take-off or landing. One landing or take-off is calculated as one aircraft movement.<\/p>\n<p>Following two bird hit incidents on Sunday, which forced an IndiGo plane and a SpiceJet aircraft to turn back to their airports of origin, India\u2019s aviation safety regulator has written to all airport operators,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEARLY FOUR \u201cwildlife strike\u201d incidents occurred every day near Indian airports last year, double from a little over two daily incidents in 2016, even as aircraft movement numbers for 2021 remained below the 2016 total, according to data sourced from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and Airports Authority of India (AAI). A \u201cwildlife strike\u201d means an aircraft either suffered a bird hit or was disrupted by an animal on the runway during take-off or landing. One landing or take-off is calculated as one aircraft movement. Following two bird hit incidents on Sunday, which forced an IndiGo plane and [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499778","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=499778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}