The hydraulic flaps of the landing-gear doors of a Bombardier Q400 aircraft accidentally shut, trapping the SpiceJet technician and resulting in his death.
The civil aviation regulator DGCA pulled up the SpiceJet executives after a special audit team of multiple landing incidents found lapses on their part.
SpiceJet, which had taken delivery of 13 Boeing Max jets before the model was grounded, still expects to receive as many as 25 more this financial year.
The SpiceJet flights, one from Mumbai to Chennai and the other from Bengaluru to New Delhi, faced mid-air glitches, resulting in the planes being diverted.
Jet’s rivals are taking over its airport slots & aircraft and getting them back will be complicated, potentially leaving little to a possible new owner.
With Jet Airways grounding its fleet of 119 aircraft fleet and Spice Jet pulling out its 737 Max, airfares have been rising across India for past few weeks.
Many flights have been cancelled following the civil aviation ministry ordering Boeing 737 Max flights to be grounded or restricted from Indian airspace.
The view that bureaucracies are bloated with far too many employees preying on taxpayers money is a widely held myth. Research shows how significantly understaffed the Indian state is.
The Centre is considering an increase in the National Company Law Tribunal's bench capacity, while the Standing Committee of Finance suggests fast-track courts.
The helicopters produced by Lockheed Martin are known as ‘submarine hunters’. India ordered 24 of these aircraft in 2020 to replace the Sea King helicopters. 15 have been delivered till date.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
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