{"id":658299,"date":"2026-02-05T11:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658299"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:39:06","slug":"turbulent-start-to-2026-for-aviation-from-mumbai-to-maine-a-look-at-plane-accidents-and-close-calls-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/turbulent-start-to-2026-for-aviation-from-mumbai-to-maine-a-look-at-plane-accidents-and-close-calls-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Turbulent start to 2026 for aviation: From Mumbai to Maine, a look at plane accidents and close calls so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a month into the year 2026, a series of plane crashes and close calls has once again brought aviation safety into focus. While commercial air travel remains a popular mode of transport, a series of accidents involving private and commercial aircraft has marked the early months of the year.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, 3 February, two passenger aircraft, an Air India and an IndiGo plane, suffered a wingtip grazing incident on the ground at Mumbai airport. Both planes had passengers on board when the incident happened. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a month into the year 2026, a series of plane crashes and close calls has once again brought aviation safety into focus. While commercial air travel remains a popular mode of transport, a series of accidents involving private and commercial aircraft has marked the early months of the year. On Tuesday, 3 February, two passenger aircraft, an Air India and an IndiGo plane, suffered a wingtip grazing incident on the ground at Mumbai airport. Both planes had passengers on board when the incident happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658299","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}