{"id":97435,"date":"2017-01-19T11:41:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T11:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=97435"},"modified":"2017-01-19T11:41:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T11:41:15","slug":"dgca-orders-probe-into-indigo-flight-emergency-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-orders-probe-into-indigo-flight-emergency-landing\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA orders probe into IndiGo flight emergency landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator DGCA has ordered a probe into the incident involving an IndiGo flight which made an emergency landing at the Kolkata airport yesterday due to a &#8220;serious&#8221; engine glitch. <\/p>\n<p>The flight, carrying 180 passengers including two infants onboard, was on its way to Dibrugarh from New Delhi when it was diverted to Kolkata&#8217;s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the aircraft engines was shut midway which forced the IndiGo Delhi-Dibrugarh flight to made emergency landing at Kolkata airport. It is a very serious issue. The DGCA has launched its investigation into the incident,&#8221; sources said today. <\/p>\n<p>A response from IndiGo on the issue is awaited. <\/p>\n<p>However, IndiGo had yesterday claimed that its pilot had not sought emergency landing of its flight and Kolkata ATC had acted on its own. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite that cockpit crew did not declare any emergency, ATC (Kolkata) declared full emergency on its own. The aircraft landed safely,&#8221; IndiGo said in the statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator DGCA has ordered a probe into the incident involving an IndiGo flight which made an emergency landing at the Kolkata airport yesterday due to a &#8220;serious&#8221; engine glitch. The flight, carrying 180 passengers including two infants onboard, was on its way to Dibrugarh from New Delhi when it was diverted to Kolkata&#8217;s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport. &#8220;One of the aircraft engines was shut midway which forced the IndiGo Delhi-Dibrugarh flight to made emergency landing at Kolkata airport. It is a very serious issue. The DGCA has launched its investigation into the incident,&#8221; sources said today. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97435","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}