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Two GoAir flights have reported malfunctioning on Tuesday. One of these A320 flights was going from Mumbai to Leh. Its engine has been reported to be faulty. The second flight VT-WG G8-6202 took off from Srinagar to Delhi. Both these flights have been returned to Srinagar and Delhi. The Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) gave this information. He said that we are probing the matter. Earlier on July 5, a GoAir flight from Delhi to Patna was returned to Delhi due to a technical snag.
2 days ago also 2 flights were diverted
On Sunday, international flights of two Indian airline companies one after the other were diverted due to technical glitch. Air India Express flight from Calicut to Dubai was made to land in Muscat. A few hours before this, the Indigo plane coming from Sharjah to Hyderabad was made landing in Karachi, Pakistan.
According to the DGCA, a burning smell emanated from a vent in the forward gallery of the Air India Express aircraft, following which the plane was diverted to Muscat. At the same time, the crew on Indigo’s plane noted a technical fault and the plane was taken to Karachi.
IndiGo’s two emergency landings on July 14
On July 14, an IndiGo flight 6E-859 from Delhi to Vadodara had made an emergency landing in Jaipur. It was told that there was some technical fault in the plane, after which its emergency landing was made as a precaution. On July 14, IndiGo flight 6E-2615, going from Delhi to Manipur’s capital Imphal, had to land at Kolkata airport due to bad weather. There were 141 passengers on this plane.
Two accidents of SpiceJet averted in one day on July 5
On July 5, two accidents of SpiceJet aircraft kept happening one after the other. The first case was in the morning, when the plane going from Delhi to Dubai had to make a landing in Karachi, Pakistan due to a technical fault. It was being told that due to fuel leak, the flight had to make an emergency landing in Karachi.
The second case was of a plane going from Kandla to Mumbai, when the windshield outer pan of the SpiceJet aircraft cracked at an altitude of about 23 thousand feet in the air. After which the plane landed safely in Mumbai.
DGCA strict on airlines companies
For the past few days, there has been a sharp increase in the cases of emergency landings due to technical fault in the passenger planes. Now DGCA has shown strictness regarding this. Aircraft of any airline will be allowed to take off from the base or airport only if the licensed staff has given approval regarding its safety.
In fact, officers of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had recently done spot checking in several flights. After its report, new instructions have been issued. The officers have said that the implementation of his order should be started by July 28. This order was necessitated because in the last one month, the aircraft of airlines like SpiceJet and Indigo have made emergency landings due to technical fault.
