{"id":532583,"date":"2022-10-29T09:26:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T03:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=532583"},"modified":"2022-10-29T10:36:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T05:06:24","slug":"indigo-plane-engine-catches-fire-emergency-declared-at-delhi-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-plane-engine-catches-fire-emergency-declared-at-delhi-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo plane engine catches fire; emergency declared at Delhi airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An IndiGo plane declared emergency at the Delhi airport on Friday after one of its engines caught fire at the time of taxiing, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>The Bengaluru-bound A320 aircraft, which had 184 people on board, later returned to the bay. The people were safely deboarded, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>A video on Twitter showed one of the plane&#8217;s engines on fire and sparks flying at the time of taxiing at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place at around 10 pm.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, IndiGo said the aircraft operating flight 6E2131 from Delhi to Bengaluru experienced an engine stall during take off roll. &#8220;The take off was aborted and the aircraft safely returned to the bay. All passengers are being accommodated on an alternate aircraft,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An IndiGo plane declared emergency at the Delhi airport on Friday after one of its engines caught fire at the time of taxiing, according to sources. The Bengaluru-bound A320 aircraft, which had 184 people on board, later returned to the bay. The people were safely deboarded, the sources said. A video on Twitter showed one of the plane&#8217;s engines on fire and sparks flying at the time of taxiing at the airport. The incident took place at around 10 pm. In a statement, IndiGo said the aircraft operating flight 6E2131 from Delhi to Bengaluru experienced an engine stall during take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532583","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}