{"id":594313,"date":"2023-07-31T09:31:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T04:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=594313"},"modified":"2023-07-31T09:58:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T04:28:40","slug":"indigo-fined-rs-30-lakh-for-tail-strikes-dgca-find-systemic-deficiencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-fined-rs-30-lakh-for-tail-strikes-dgca-find-systemic-deficiencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigo fined Rs 30 lakh for tail strikes, DGCA find &#8216;systemic deficiencies&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The aviation regulator has fined IndiGo Rs 30 lakh after the airline suffered four tail strike incidents on its A321 aircraft this year.<\/p>\n<p>A tail strike occurs when the rear end of an aircraft&#8217;s body, also called an aft fuselage, scrapes the runway during landing or takeoff. Such incidents can damage a plane. <\/p>\n<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said it conducted a special audit of the airline&#8217;s documentation and procedure on operations, training, engineering, and Flight Data Monitoring (FDM) programme. &#8220;During the special audit, certain systemic deficiencies were observed in M\/s Indigo Airlines documentation pertaining to operations\/training procedures and engineering procedures,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aviation regulator has fined IndiGo Rs 30 lakh after the airline suffered four tail strike incidents on its A321 aircraft this year. A tail strike occurs when the rear end of an aircraft&#8217;s body, also called an aft fuselage, scrapes the runway during landing or takeoff. Such incidents can damage a plane. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said it conducted a special audit of the airline&#8217;s documentation and procedure on operations, training, engineering, and Flight Data Monitoring (FDM) programme. &#8220;During the special audit, certain systemic deficiencies were observed in M\/s Indigo Airlines documentation pertaining to operations\/training procedures [&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-594313","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\/594313","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=594313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}