{"id":508375,"date":"2022-07-25T09:01:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T03:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=508375"},"modified":"2022-07-25T09:30:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T04:00:20","slug":"spurt-in-snags-dgca-starts-2-month-long-special-audit-of-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/spurt-in-snags-dgca-starts-2-month-long-special-audit-of-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurt in snags: DGCA starts 2-month-long special audit of airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator DGCA has started a 2-month-long special audit of airlines after its spot checks earlier this month found that insufficient and unqualified engineering personnel are certifying carriers&#8217; planes before their departure, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) conducted the spot checks as there have been many technical malfunction incidents in Indian carriers&#8217; planes during the last 45 days.<\/p>\n<p>The focus of the aforementioned special audit will be facilities like hangars and stores, equipment being used by airline personnel, airlines&#8217; quality assurance system, aircraft grounded due to lack of spare parts and airlines&#8217; maintenance control centre, a DGCA order dated July 18 stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator DGCA has started a 2-month-long special audit of airlines after its spot checks earlier this month found that insufficient and unqualified engineering personnel are certifying carriers&#8217; planes before their departure, officials said. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) conducted the spot checks as there have been many technical malfunction incidents in Indian carriers&#8217; planes during the last 45 days. The focus of the aforementioned special audit will be facilities like hangars and stores, equipment being used by airline personnel, airlines&#8217; quality assurance system, aircraft grounded due to lack of spare parts and airlines&#8217; maintenance control centre, a [&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-508375","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\/508375","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=508375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}