{"id":512768,"date":"2022-08-08T11:45:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T06:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=512768"},"modified":"2022-08-08T11:45:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T06:15:17","slug":"spicejet-flight-dgca-probe-on-after-fliers-walk-on-tarmac-at-delhi-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/spicejet-flight-dgca-probe-on-after-fliers-walk-on-tarmac-at-delhi-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"SpiceJet flight: DGCA probe on after fliers walk on tarmac at Delhi airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is looking into a Saturday night incident at Delhi\u2019s Indira Gandhi International (IGI), where passengers who landed from Hyderabad on a SpiceJet flight walked on the tarmac towards the terminal, in the absence of an aircraft bus. The airline, however, denied the incident and said only \u201ca few passengers\u201d walked briefly towards the terminal, after a brief delay in the arrival of coaches. Delhi airport officials said this has been noted as a possible protocol breach as it can pose a risk to both aircrafts and the passengers.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place after 11.30pm, soon after SpiceJet\u2019s SG 8108 landed at the Delhi airport from Hyderabad. While most passengers waited for the airline to arrange coaches, some passengers, in the absence of a coach, headed towards the terminal through the tarmac. \u201cThis is a security breach as no passengers are permitted on the tarmac. Even vehicles have a defined area,\u201d said a Delhi airport official who asked not to be named.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is looking into a Saturday night incident at Delhi\u2019s Indira Gandhi International (IGI), where passengers who landed from Hyderabad on a SpiceJet flight walked on the tarmac towards the terminal, in the absence of an aircraft bus. The airline, however, denied the incident and said only \u201ca few passengers\u201d walked briefly towards the terminal, after a brief delay in the arrival of coaches. Delhi airport officials said this has been noted as a possible protocol breach as it can pose a risk to both aircrafts and the passengers. The incident took place after [&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-512768","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\/512768","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=512768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}