{"id":598139,"date":"2023-08-17T10:42:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T05:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=598139"},"modified":"2023-08-17T12:01:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T06:31:16","slug":"pilot-who-operated-spicejet-first-flight-dies-on-delhi-doha-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pilot-who-operated-spicejet-first-flight-dies-on-delhi-doha-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot who operated SpiceJet first flight dies on Delhi-Doha flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A senior pilot \u2014 who had operated SpiceJet\u2019s inaugural flight in 2003 and was currently working with Qatar Airways \u2014 died while flying as a passenger from Delhi to Doha on Wednesday morning. The Qatar Airways flight, QR 579, diverted to Dubai due to the medical emergency when the pilot, 51, fell ill onboard. However, he could not be saved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pilot had worked with Alliance Air and spent 17 years in SpiceJet. He had operated SpiceJet\u2019s first flight, Delhi-Ahmedabad, on May 23, 2005. Last year he had joined Qatar Airways where he was flying the Boeing 777,\u201d SpiceJet sources said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: A senior pilot \u2014 who had operated SpiceJet\u2019s inaugural flight in 2003 and was currently working with Qatar Airways \u2014 died while flying as a passenger from Delhi to Doha on Wednesday morning. The Qatar Airways flight, QR 579, diverted to Dubai due to the medical emergency when the pilot, 51, fell ill onboard. However, he could not be saved. \u201cThe pilot had worked with Alliance Air and spent 17 years in SpiceJet. He had operated SpiceJet\u2019s first flight, Delhi-Ahmedabad, on May 23, 2005. Last year he had joined Qatar Airways where he was flying the Boeing 777,\u201d [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598139","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=598139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}