Domestic airline SpiceJet Tuesday mentioned aviation security regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) carried out a collection of spot checks on all of its working plane and didn’t discover “any major significant finding or safety violation”.
In an official launch, SpiceJet mentioned the Ministry of Civil Aviation has additionally knowledgeable Parliament in regards to the spot checks and findings.
“A series of spot checks were carried out recently on all operating aircraft of M/s Spicejet from 9th July 2022 to 13th July 2022. A total of 53 spot checks were carried out on 48 aircraft which did not find any major significant finding or safety violation,(sic),” SpiceJet quoted the aviation ministry as saying in a reply to a query in Rajya Sabha.
This comes after a collection of technical glitches had been reported in SpiceJet aircarfts since over a month. On July 5, a Dubai-bound airplane of SpiceJet from Delhi was diverted to Karachi in Pakistan after the pilots seen an uncommon gasoline discount in one of many gasoline tanks of the airplane. Later, it was discovered that an indicator mild was malfunctioning.
In one other incident, an airplane flying from Kandla to Mumbai, made a precedence touchdown after the outer pane of its windshield cracked at 23,000 ft.
The SpiceJet mentioned the civil aviation ministry, over a query on flight diversion to Karachi, mentioned, “Cabin crew did not declare an emergency. Post landing check and inspection at Karachi did not reveal fuel leak.”
The airways claimed that 10 defects or malfunctions had been recognized by the DGCA and all the problems have been rectified.
“I am happy that the findings of the various checks carried out by the DGCA on our fleet have been made public by the government,” Ajay Singh, chairman and managing director of SpiceJet was quoted within the launch as saying.
Spicejet shares have witnessed a steep decline of over 30 per cent thus far on this monetary yr.
