{"id":530389,"date":"2022-10-18T11:02:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T05:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=530389"},"modified":"2022-10-18T11:02:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T05:32:58","slug":"snag-hit-spicejet-gets-dgca-directive-on-fleet-upkeep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/snag-hit-spicejet-gets-dgca-directive-on-fleet-upkeep\/","title":{"rendered":"Snag-hit SpiceJet gets DGCA directive on fleet upkeep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Following repeated snags in SpiceJet\u2019s Bombardier Q400 fleet in recent months \u2014 including smoke in the cabin of a flight which then had to make an emergency landing last Wednesday (Oct 12), \u2014 the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has issued a string of directives to the cash-strapped airline for continuing to use this aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The low cost carrier has 14 operational Q400s and it has been asked not to send any of the Pratt &amp; Whitney (PW) PW150A engines, with 28 powering these 14 planes, to a maintenance organisation in Singapore, Standard Aero. Probes of past few incidents showed snags had been detected in engines that had been overhauled by this company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne time boroscopic inspection of all (Q400) operational engines (will be conducted) within a week and completion of boroscopic inspection on three engines, which have been received from Standard Aero, Singapore, (to be done) by Monday night,\u201d the DGCA said on Monday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Following repeated snags in SpiceJet\u2019s Bombardier Q400 fleet in recent months \u2014 including smoke in the cabin of a flight which then had to make an emergency landing last Wednesday (Oct 12), \u2014 the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has issued a string of directives to the cash-strapped airline for continuing to use this aircraft. The low cost carrier has 14 operational Q400s and it has been asked not to send any of the Pratt &amp; Whitney (PW) PW150A engines, with 28 powering these 14 planes, to a maintenance organisation in Singapore, Standard Aero. Probes of past [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530389","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\/530389","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=530389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}