{"id":597674,"date":"2023-08-16T09:34:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T04:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=597674"},"modified":"2023-08-16T10:09:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T04:39:32","slug":"aircraft-bird-hit-incidents-increase-by-62-in-h1-of-2023-says-dgca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/aircraft-bird-hit-incidents-increase-by-62-in-h1-of-2023-says-dgca\/","title":{"rendered":"Aircraft bird hit incidents increase by 62% in H1 of 2023, says DGCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday an AIX Connect flight en route to Surat returned to Delhi after the plane&#8217;s windshield cracked, having suffered a bird hit during take-off. Such bird strike incidents are on the rise in India, DGCA data shows, coinciding with a time when airlines are increasing their flights to meet escalating demand.<\/p>\n<p>The number of aircraft bird hit incidents in India surged by 62.29 per cent year-on-year to 1,149 in the first half of 2023, according to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation&#8217;s (DGCA) data, as reviewed by Business Standard. Bird hits are not the sole concern; animal strike incidents at Indian airports also increased to 20 in the first half of 2023 from 14 in the corresponding period the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday an AIX Connect flight en route to Surat returned to Delhi after the plane&#8217;s windshield cracked, having suffered a bird hit during take-off. Such bird strike incidents are on the rise in India, DGCA data shows, coinciding with a time when airlines are increasing their flights to meet escalating demand. The number of aircraft bird hit incidents in India surged by 62.29 per cent year-on-year to 1,149 in the first half of 2023, according to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation&#8217;s (DGCA) data, as reviewed by Business Standard. Bird hits are not the sole concern; animal strike incidents [&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-597674","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\/597674","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=597674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}