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  • SpiceJet airplane from Goa makes emergency touchdown at Hyderabad airport; DGCA orders probe

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI/HYDERABAD: A SpiceJet airplane coming from Goa made an emergency touchdown at Hyderabad airport on Wednesday night time after smoke was noticed within the cabin and aviation regulator DGCA is probing the incident, based on officers.

    The airplane landed safely and passengers disembarked by way of the emergency exit.

    One passenger sustained minor scratches on the ft whereas disembarking from the plane, a DGCA official stated.

    A Hyderabad airport official stated there have been 86 passengers onboard the Q400 plane VT-SQB and that because of the emergency touchdown, as many as 9 flights have been diverted on Wednesday night time after the incident at round 11 pm.

    SpiceJet has been going through operational and monetary headwinds in latest instances, and it’s already underneath enhanced surveillance of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).

    The regulator had additionally directed the airline to function solely 50 per cent of its whole flights until October 29.

    On Thursday, the DGCA official stated the regulator is probing the incident.

    “SpiceJet Q400 aircraft operating from Goa to Hyderabad landed safely at its destination on October 12 after smoke was observed in the cabin during descent. Passengers were safely disembarked,” an airline spokesperson stated.

    According to the DGCA official, the airplane made an emergency touchdown as a result of smoke noticed within the cockpit.

    On July 27, DGCA directed SpiceJet to function a most of fifty per cent of its flights, which have been permitted in the summertime schedule for a interval of eight weeks owing to a sequence of incidents involving its flights.

    Last month, the restrictions have been prolonged until October 29.

    NEW DELHI/HYDERABAD: A SpiceJet airplane coming from Goa made an emergency touchdown at Hyderabad airport on Wednesday night time after smoke was noticed within the cabin and aviation regulator DGCA is probing the incident, based on officers.

    The airplane landed safely and passengers disembarked by way of the emergency exit.

    One passenger sustained minor scratches on the ft whereas disembarking from the plane, a DGCA official stated.

    A Hyderabad airport official stated there have been 86 passengers onboard the Q400 plane VT-SQB and that because of the emergency touchdown, as many as 9 flights have been diverted on Wednesday night time after the incident at round 11 pm.

    SpiceJet has been going through operational and monetary headwinds in latest instances, and it’s already underneath enhanced surveillance of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).

    The regulator had additionally directed the airline to function solely 50 per cent of its whole flights until October 29.

    On Thursday, the DGCA official stated the regulator is probing the incident.

    “SpiceJet Q400 aircraft operating from Goa to Hyderabad landed safely at its destination on October 12 after smoke was observed in the cabin during descent. Passengers were safely disembarked,” an airline spokesperson stated.

    According to the DGCA official, the airplane made an emergency touchdown as a result of smoke noticed within the cockpit.

    On July 27, DGCA directed SpiceJet to function a most of fifty per cent of its flights, which have been permitted in the summertime schedule for a interval of eight weeks owing to a sequence of incidents involving its flights.

    Last month, the restrictions have been prolonged until October 29.

  • DGCA didn’t discover ‘any major significant finding or safety violation’: SpiceJet

    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.

  • 7 in 17 days: Frequency of malfunctions on SpiceJet flights a trigger for concern

    On a tricky day for SpiceJet, two of its plane have been pressured to make precedence landings after they developed technical glitches on Tuesday. Including the 2 new ones, as many as seven such incidents have occurred on SpiceJet flights within the final 17 days.

    Here is the checklist of all technical glitches reported on SpiceJet plane within the final 17 days:

    June 19

    * A Delhi-bound Boeing 737-800 operated by the Gurugram-based low-cost airline made an emergency touchdown in Patna, minutes after take-off from there, after one in all its engines suffered a fowl hit. The plane was carrying 185 passengers and 6 crew members.

    * A Bombardier Q400 Dash 8, developed a cabin pressurisation subject after departure from Delhi. As the plane climbed out of Delhi, the pilots famous that the cabin strain didn’t construct up consistent with the altitude acquire. Following this, the crew determined to return and the plane landed safely again in Delhi.

    June 24

    * The fuselage warning mild on a SpiceJet Q400 plane (Guwahati-Kolkata) lit up when it was on ‘rotation’, forcing them to desert their journeys and return. The pilots of the flight discovered that the warning was coming from the luggage door on the rear finish of the aircraft, the officers stated.

    June 25

    * An identical incident befell on SpiceJet’s Patna-Guwahati flight on June 25. A SpiceJet Q400 plane was pressured to ditch its take-off roll on the Patna airport after the plane’s fuselage door warning mild lit up. Here too, it was discovered that the warning had come from the luggage door on the rear finish of the plane.

    July 2

    * A Jabalpur-bound flight operated by the low-cost service on a Bombardier Q400 Dash 8 aircraft made an emergency touchdown in Delhi after the smoke alarm was triggered. The plane took off from Delhi early Saturday, and whereas climbing previous 5,000 ft, the crew observed smoke within the cabin together with the bathroom smoke alarm sound going off, a high official on the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) stated.

    July 5

    * A SpiceJet Boeing 737 Max plane on its approach to Dubai from Delhi with 150 folks on board landed in Karachi, Pakistan on Tuesday after it developed a technical glitch. Pilots of the Dubai-bound flight observed uncommon gas discount in one of many aircraft’s gas tanks, following which they determined to divert the aircraft to the closest airport, officers stated. The flight was cruising at 36,000 ft within the Pakistan airspace when the glitch was noticed, a supply stated.

    * The outer windshield of a SpiceJet plane, flying from Kandla in Gujarat, cracked mid-air at present after which the aircraft made a precedence touchdown in Mumbai. Officials stated the Kandla-Mumbai flight of SpiceJet was at 23,000 ft altitude when the windshield’s outer pane cracked.

    The Directorate General of Civil Aviation is investigating all seven incidents.

    Meanwhile, shares of the price range service fell over two per cent on Tuesday following studies that the SpiceJet Boeing 737 Max plane needed to land in Karachi. The SpiceJet inventory fell 2.33 per cent to finish at Rs 37.65 apiece on the BSE whereas on the National Stock Exchange (NSE), it declined 2.20 per cent to settle at Rs 37.70 per share.