NEW DELHI: A day after SpiceJet was ordered to operate half of its approved schedule, its Mumbai-Kandla flight aborted take-off at Mumbai on Thursday after getting a caution alert. The aircraft safely returned to the bay and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is examining the issue.
\n\u201cA Q400 aircraft scheduled to operate from Mumbai to Kandla rejected take-off owing to illumination of a caution alert. Crew acted as per the standard operating procedure. There was no safety scare. The aircraft returned to the bay, and all passengers and crew safely deboarded,\u201d said an airline spokesperson.
\nAfter analysing a spate of incidents on SpiceJet flights over a month back, the DGCA, in an interim order on Wednesday, had asked the airline to operate a truncated schedule \u2014half of the allowed fights \u2014 this summer and that too under \u201cenhanced surveillance\u201d. The cash-strapped airline will be allowed to scale up operations only after proving that it has \u201csufficient technical support and financial resource to safely and efficiently undertake such enhanced capacity. \u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: A day after SpiceJet was ordered to operate half of its approved schedule, its Mumbai-Kandla flight aborted take-off at Mumbai on Thursday after getting a caution alert. The aircraft safely returned to the bay and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is examining the issue. \u201cA Q400 aircraft scheduled to operate from Mumbai to Kandla rejected take-off owing to illumination of a caution alert. Crew acted as per the standard operating procedure. There was no safety scare. The aircraft returned to the bay, and all passengers and crew safely deboarded,\u201d said an airline spokesperson. After analysing a […]<\/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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510023","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=510023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}