{"id":533099,"date":"2022-10-31T12:59:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T07:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=533099"},"modified":"2022-10-31T13:22:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T07:52:44","slug":"spicejet-48-year-old-passenger-injured-during-flight-turbulence-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/spicejet-48-year-old-passenger-injured-during-flight-turbulence-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"SpiceJet: 48-year-old passenger injured during flight turbulence dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 48-year-old passenger who had suffered injuries during severe turbulence during a Mumbai-Durgapur SpiceJet flight in early May died last month, the airline said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Akbar Ansari, who suffered a spinal fracture after his seatbelt broke, had been on ventilator support for more than a month before succumbing to his injuries on September 26, his family said.<\/p>\n<p>This is said to be the first instance in 42 years of a passenger in India dying because of flight turbulence. In 1980, an Indian Airlines flight experienced severe turbulence over Rampurhat in Bengal, killing two of the 132 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 48-year-old passenger who had suffered injuries during severe turbulence during a Mumbai-Durgapur SpiceJet flight in early May died last month, the airline said on Saturday. Akbar Ansari, who suffered a spinal fracture after his seatbelt broke, had been on ventilator support for more than a month before succumbing to his injuries on September 26, his family said. This is said to be the first instance in 42 years of a passenger in India dying because of flight turbulence. In 1980, an Indian Airlines flight experienced severe turbulence over Rampurhat in Bengal, killing two of the 132 people.<\/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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533099","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=533099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}