{"id":595235,"date":"2023-08-02T11:23:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T05:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=595235"},"modified":"2023-08-02T11:23:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T05:53:45","slug":"indigo-makes-changes-after-multiple-tail-strike-of-airbus-a321-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-makes-changes-after-multiple-tail-strike-of-airbus-a321-planes\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo makes changes after multiple tail strike of Airbus A321 planes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 15 June, an IndiGo Airbus A321Neo aircraft landed at Ahmedabad airport. While for 230 passengers in the aircraft, it was an incident-free flight, the tail of the aircraft had scraped the runway during landing. There was substantial damage to the aircraft and after 46 days it\u2019s still grounded for maintenance work.<\/p>\n<p>Investigation by the airline found that while the pilot had entered data for a full flap landing on the aircraft control unit, he had actually deployed the flaps at a reduced angle or at Flap 3 position. Flaps are set in the wings of an aircraft to create drag during a landing or a take-off. Flap 3 position produces less drag and hence requires less thrust reducing fuel consumption as compared to when they are deployed full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 15 June, an IndiGo Airbus A321Neo aircraft landed at Ahmedabad airport. While for 230 passengers in the aircraft, it was an incident-free flight, the tail of the aircraft had scraped the runway during landing. There was substantial damage to the aircraft and after 46 days it\u2019s still grounded for maintenance work. Investigation by the airline found that while the pilot had entered data for a full flap landing on the aircraft control unit, he had actually deployed the flaps at a reduced angle or at Flap 3 position. Flaps are set in the wings of an aircraft to create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595235","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}