{"id":507836,"date":"2022-07-22T09:57:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T04:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=507836"},"modified":"2022-07-22T10:45:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T05:15:10","slug":"air-india-flight-diverted-after-cabin-pressure-loss-dgca-grounds-crew-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-flight-diverted-after-cabin-pressure-loss-dgca-grounds-crew-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India flight diverted after cabin pressure loss; DGCA grounds crew, plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AN AIR India-operated Boeing 787 plane with around 260 people on board suffered cabin depressurisation on Thursday, while flying from Dubai to Kochi, according to official sources. The aircraft was cruising at 37,000 feet when the issue occurred and saw oxygen masks being deployed with some of the passengers suffering nosebleeds, they said.<\/p>\n<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is investigating the incident. The regulator has grounded the aircraft and off-rostered the crew pending an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Following the depressurisation, the pilots descended the aircraft to 10,000 feet. \u201cThe captain reported the pressurisation loss to the Air India Integrated Operations Control Centre, and diverted the flight to Mumbai,\u201d a DGCA official said. There were 247 passengers and 11 crew members on board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN AIR India-operated Boeing 787 plane with around 260 people on board suffered cabin depressurisation on Thursday, while flying from Dubai to Kochi, according to official sources. The aircraft was cruising at 37,000 feet when the issue occurred and saw oxygen masks being deployed with some of the passengers suffering nosebleeds, they said. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is investigating the incident. The regulator has grounded the aircraft and off-rostered the crew pending an investigation. Following the depressurisation, the pilots descended the aircraft to 10,000 feet. \u201cThe captain reported the pressurisation loss to the Air India Integrated Operations [&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-507836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507836","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=507836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}