{"id":513193,"date":"2022-08-10T12:41:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T07:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=513193"},"modified":"2022-08-10T12:41:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T07:11:38","slug":"data-shows-dip-in-air-accidents-in-2022-officials-hail-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/data-shows-dip-in-air-accidents-in-2022-officials-hail-framework\/","title":{"rendered":"Data shows dip in air accidents in 2022; officials hail framework"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were four accidents in Indian skies in 2021, compared to two in 2020 and one each in the preceding two years, according to official data, numbers that show that the country\u2019s civil aviation sector is safe, a top official said, attributing this to a robust regulatory framework.<\/p>\n<p>India has seen one air accident till June this year, which took place on May 1, when a SpiceJet flight from Mumbai to Durgapur encountered severe turbulence during descent, leaving passengers injured, data from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) show.<\/p>\n<p>Since India\u2019s safety record is among the best in the world, the current debate on flight safety is \u201cludicrous,\u201d said Arun Kumar, director general of DGCA . India ensures complete compliance with standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organisation standards, he added. \u201cWe take strict enforcement action in case of any deviation,\u201d Kumar said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were four accidents in Indian skies in 2021, compared to two in 2020 and one each in the preceding two years, according to official data, numbers that show that the country\u2019s civil aviation sector is safe, a top official said, attributing this to a robust regulatory framework. India has seen one air accident till June this year, which took place on May 1, when a SpiceJet flight from Mumbai to Durgapur encountered severe turbulence during descent, leaving passengers injured, data from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) show. Since India\u2019s safety record is among the best in the [&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-513193","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\/513193","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=513193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}