On June 11, an IndiGo aircraft reportedly suffered a tail strike on its arrival at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, following which the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) ordered a probe into the incident. <\/p>\n
In this article, Deccan Herald explains what tail strikes are and how they occur.<\/p>\n
A tail strike occurs when the tail of an airplane touches the runway during takeoff or landing. It’s a common occurrence, often caused by human error, although strong winds can make it more likely to happen. It is also most likely to occur when the aircraft takes on a “high attack angle” during either takeoff or a landing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On June 11, an IndiGo aircraft reportedly suffered a tail strike on its arrival at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, following which the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) ordered a probe into the incident. In this article, Deccan Herald explains what tail strikes are and how they occur. A tail strike occurs when the tail of an airplane touches the runway during takeoff or landing. It’s a common occurrence, often caused by human error, although strong winds can make it more likely to happen. It is also most likely to occur when the aircraft takes on a “high attack […]<\/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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584704","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=584704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}