{"id":502487,"date":"2022-07-02T11:42:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T06:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=502487"},"modified":"2022-07-02T11:42:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T06:12:04","slug":"spicejet-flight-returns-to-delhi-smoke-inside-cabin-at-5000-ft-height","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/spicejet-flight-returns-to-delhi-smoke-inside-cabin-at-5000-ft-height\/","title":{"rendered":"SpiceJet flight returns to Delhi, smoke inside cabin at 5,000 ft height"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Delhi-Jabalpur SpiceJet aircraft (SG-2962) had to return to the Delhi airport on Saturday morning after the cabin crew noticed smoke inside the plane when the aircraft was flying at a height of 5,000ft. A SpiceJet spokesperson said all passengers have deboarded the plane safely at Delhi airport. News agency ANI shared a video showing how passengers were fanning themselves with newspapers and airline booklets as the smoke entered the cabin.<\/p>\n<p>SpiceJet has come under fire, of late, because of back-to-back incidents, raising questions over passenger safety. On June 19, a Delhi-bound Spicejet flight had to return to Patna airport after it caught fire hit by a bird.<\/p>\n<p>A social media user, Saurabh Chhabra, who was a passenger on the flight recounted what happened inside the plane. &#8220;Faced this incident today morning. Looks like SpiceJet is unsafe&#8230;Once passengers started panicking, they landed back to Delhi. Plane caught fire. Thankfully we are safe but waiting since long. They don&#8217;t have backup,&#8221; he wrote along with photos from the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Delhi-Jabalpur SpiceJet aircraft (SG-2962) had to return to the Delhi airport on Saturday morning after the cabin crew noticed smoke inside the plane when the aircraft was flying at a height of 5,000ft. A SpiceJet spokesperson said all passengers have deboarded the plane safely at Delhi airport. News agency ANI shared a video showing how passengers were fanning themselves with newspapers and airline booklets as the smoke entered the cabin. SpiceJet has come under fire, of late, because of back-to-back incidents, raising questions over passenger safety. On June 19, a Delhi-bound Spicejet flight had to return to Patna airport [&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-502487","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\/502487","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=502487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}