{"id":637078,"date":"2024-03-01T10:49:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T05:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=637078"},"modified":"2024-03-01T12:48:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T07:18:36","slug":"dgca-fines-air-india-rs-30-lakh-after-death-of-elderly-passenger-due-to-lack-of-wheelchair-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-fines-air-india-rs-30-lakh-after-death-of-elderly-passenger-due-to-lack-of-wheelchair-assistance\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA fines Air India Rs 30 lakh after death of elderly passenger due to lack of wheelchair assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has imposed a hefty fine of Rs 30 lakh on Air India following an incident at Mumbai airport where an 80-year-old passenger collapsed and later died after walking from the plane to the terminal due to the unavailability of a wheelchair.<\/p>\n<p>The unfortunate incident occurred on February 12, prompting the aviation regulator to take swift action against the national carrier. A senior official from DGCA stated on Thursday that Air India failed to provide any wheelchair assistance to the elderly passenger, leading to the tragic outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has imposed a hefty fine of Rs 30 lakh on Air India following an incident at Mumbai airport where an 80-year-old passenger collapsed and later died after walking from the plane to the terminal due to the unavailability of a wheelchair. The unfortunate incident occurred on February 12, prompting the aviation regulator to take swift action against the national carrier. A senior official from DGCA stated on Thursday that Air India failed to provide any wheelchair assistance to the elderly passenger, leading to the tragic outcome.<\/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":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637078","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=637078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}