Days after a SpiceJet flight, a Q400 aircraft turboprop made an emergency landing in Hyderabad after smoke filled its cockpit and cabin, aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Monday ordered a clutch of inspections of the airline\u2019s 14 Q400 aircraft, asking it to conduct regular engine oil analysis, and a one-time assessment of the 28 engines in the fleet.<\/p>\n
The SpiceJet flight landed at the Hyderabad airport on October 12 amid a full emergency, with officials saying that engine oil seepage that entered the aircraft\u2019s air-conditioning system appeared to have caused the incident. All passengers disembarked safely from the Goa-Hyderabad flight after it landed at around 11pm, but the emergency prompted DGCA to initiate a probe into the latest in the string of safety incidents concerning the domestic carrier.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the aviation regulator asked SpiceJet, which has witnessed a series of safety incidents in recent months, to take oil samples and send them to engine-maker Pratt & Whitney, Canada every 15 days instead of the current norm of 30 days for analysis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Days after a SpiceJet flight, a Q400 aircraft turboprop made an emergency landing in Hyderabad after smoke filled its cockpit and cabin, aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Monday ordered a clutch of inspections of the airline\u2019s 14 Q400 aircraft, asking it to conduct regular engine oil analysis, and a one-time assessment of the 28 engines in the fleet. The SpiceJet flight landed at the Hyderabad airport on October 12 amid a full emergency, with officials saying that engine oil seepage that entered the aircraft\u2019s air-conditioning system appeared to have caused the incident. All passengers disembarked safely […]<\/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-530507","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\/530507","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=530507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}