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Srinagar, July 15: A video that has gone viral shows fellow passengers asking the troublemakers to sit down. "You cannot stop a plane like this; this is illegal," one of the passengers says. "AC chala de, hum baith jayenge" (switch the AC on, we will sit down)," comes the reply from the rear part of the cabin. Some passengers are then heard telling the cabin crew to call CISF security personnel and deboard the troublemakers. "Those who don't want to go, make sure they get down," says a flier. A SpiceJet flight from Delhi to Mumbai experienced significant disruption on July 14 after two unruly passengers attempted to forcefully approach the cockpit during taxiing. According to air traffic tracker Flightradar24, flight SG 9282, originally scheduled for departure at 12:30 pm, eventually took off at 7:21 pm and landed in Mumbai at 9:05 pm. It remains unclear whether the nearly seven-hour delay was directly caused by the incident. In an official statement, SpiceJet confirmed that the passengers ignored repeated instructions from the cabin crew, fellow travelers, and the captain to return to their seats. Prioritizing the safety of everyone on board, the captain chose to return the aircraft to the bay, where the individuals were removed from the flight. They were later handed over to the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) for further action.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 13 (ANI): President of the Federation of Indian Pilots, Charanvir Singh Randhawa, on Sunday raised doubts over the preliminary report on the Air India AI171 crash, saying it fails to clarify who was in control of the cockpit and points to a possible electrical or software malfunction in the aircraft. Speaking to ANI, Randhawa said, 'The aircraft was actually being flown by the co-pilot, who was the one controlling the plane, while the captain, who was the pilot-in-command, was monitoring the flight. So, it's still unclear who made the key decisions. The prel ...Read More >
Delhi, July 15: A SpiceJet flight SG 9282 from Delhi to Mumbai was significantly delayed on Monday, July 15, after two passengers, one of them identified as Yachana Nair, allegedly attempted to forcefully approach the cockpit while the aircraft was taxiing. The incident occurred as the passengers complained of an air conditioning issue, which further led to their offloading and subsequent handover to security personnel. The flight, SG 9282, was preparing for departure from Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport when the disruption occurred. According to the airline, the two passengers ig ...Read More >
Srinagar, Aug 03: A senior Army officer allegedly assaulted four SpiceJet employees at Srinagar airport following a dispute over excess cabin baggage, the airline said on Sunday. SpiceJet stated that its staff sustained severe injuries, including a spinal fracture and a serious jaw injury, describing the incident as a "murderous assault." The Indian Army, through its spokesman, said it is committed to upholding the highest standards of discipline and conduct and takes all allegations seriously. "Full cooperation is being extended to the authorities in investigating the case," the spokesman a ...Read More >
NEW DELHI -The Indian airports authority said late on Friday that a system used to generate flight plans was "up and running," more than a day after a technical glitch led to delays of hundreds of flights at Delhi airport, one of the world's busiest. The malfunction, which had delayed departures and arrivals, had sent shares of IndiGo 2% lower on Friday, while SpiceJet lost 1% after the airlines, along with Air India Group, warned of disruptions, which are expected to spill over into Saturday. The Airports Authority of India said it will take some time for the system to resume functioning no ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 4 (ANI): An Air India flight from Bengaluru to Delhi was delayed in the early hours of Friday after a medical emergency involving one of its pilots. Flight AI2414 was set to depart on schedule, but the rostered pilot fell ill just before takeoff and was immediately taken to a local hospital. In a statement, an Air India spokesperson confirmed the incident, saying, 'There was a medical emergency involving one of our pilots in the early hours of 04 July. As a result, the pilot was unable to operate the flight AI2414 from Bengaluru to Delhi, which he was rostered for, and ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 12 (ANI): Former Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Flight Operations Inspector Captain Prashant Dhalla on Saturday floated the idea of startle effect in play before the Air India flight 171 crashed in Ahmedabad shortly after departure while noting that it was premature to assume human error. Discussing the importance of understanding human factors in crash incidents, he noted that the preliminary report by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) states the Ram Air Turbine (RAT) was out. On this basis, he pushed a theory that refers to pilots trying ...Read More >
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's aircraft accident investigation body said on Thursday it was too early to reach any "definite conclusions" on what led to the deadly Air India Boeing plane crash last month that killed 260 people. "We urge both the public and the media to refrain from spreading premature narratives that risk undermining the integrity of the investigative process," Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) chief GVG Yugandhar said, adding that the investigation is still not complete. Earlier on Thursday, the Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with U.S. officials' ear ...Read More >
New Delhi, Aug 3 (PTI) SpiceJet on Sunday said a senior Army officer, who was to board a flight to Delhi, assaulted four airline ground staffers at the Srinagar airport on July 26, causing a spinal fracture to one of them. An FIR has been registered with the local police and the airline has initiated the process to place the passenger on the no-fly list in accordance with civil aviation regulations, the airline said and added that the assault happened after the passenger was told to pay for the extra cabin baggage. Video clips of the incident shared on social media showed the passenger assau ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 14 (PTI) It was human error that led to the fuel switches being cut off before Air India's Boeing 787-8 plane crashed in Ahmedabad last month, and there also should have been more transparency in the AAIB's preliminary report on the accident, aviation expert Captain Mohan Ranganathan said on Monday. His comments come at a time when the pilots' associations have flagged concerns about speculations of possible pilot error for the AI 171 flight crash that killed 260 people on June 12. On Sunday, the Indian Commercial Pilots' Association (ICPA) said the crew of the flight acted in ...Read More >
Mumbai: Aviation regulator DGCA on Monday asked airlines to inspect the fuel switch locking system in their Boeing 787 and 737 planes, a move that comes days after the preliminary probe report into the Air India's Boeing 787 crash found that the switches were cut off before the accident last month. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), back in 2018, had flagged the potential disengagement of the fuel control switch locking feature on certain models of Boeing aircraft, including 787s and 737s. It was mentioned in a Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin (SAIB) but there was no airwort ...Read More >
India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has called for restraint from the public and international media as it investigates the recent Air India crash which authorities have described as one of the most devastating aviation incidents in recent years. Last month, an Air India Boeing 787 crashed at Ahmedabad killing 270 people. Initial findings by AAIB said that the fuel switches were cut off seconds after taking off. The report also mentioned that there was confusion among the two p ...Read More >
MUMBAI -- Investigators have recovered flight recorder data from the Air India crash earlier this month, the civil aviation ministry has confirmed, marking a key step in the probe. At least 270 people were killed when the London-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed less than a minute after taking off on 12 June from Ahmedabad airport in western India. Investigators had earlier recovered both sets of Enhanced Airborne Flight Recorders (EAFRs) - the "black boxes" - from the Boeing 787 crash site on 13 and 16 June - one from a rooftop, the other from the debris. It could be several weeks befo ...Read More >
Mumbai: A window frame of SpiceJet's aircraft SG-1080 operating its flight to Pune from Goa was found dislodged mid-air but there was no impact on passengers' safety, the airline said on Wednesday. There was no cabin depressurisation as the outer layers of the windowpane remained intact and passenger safety was not compromised, the airline said in a statement. The frame was fixed once the aircraft landed at the Pune airport, in accordance with standard maintenance procedures, the airline said. Mandar Sawant, a passenger on the flight, said, "I was travelling back from Goa to Pune after attend ...Read More >
New Delhi (India), July 17 (ANI): The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) of India on Thursday issued a strong appeal to the public and media, raising concerns about selective and unverified reporting by certain international outlets in the aftermath of the ill-fated Air India 171 crash that took 260 people. The AAIB, under the Ministry of Civil Aviation, reaffirmed that the investigation into the Air India crash is being conducted in a rigorous and most professional manner in accordance with the AAIB Rules and international protocols. The Bureau cautioned that the high-profile natu ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 17: The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) of India on Thursday issued a strong appeal to the public and media, raising concerns about "selective and unverified reporting" by certain international outlets in the aftermath of the ill-fated Air India 171 crash that took 260 people. The AAIB, under the Ministry of Civil Aviation, reaffirmed that the investigation into the Air India crash is being conducted in a "rigorous and most professional manner in accordance with the AAIB Rules and international protocols." The Bureau cautioned that the high-profile nature of the t ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) President CS Randhawa on Thursday condemned a media report that claimed that the captain of the Air India flight that crashed in Ahmedabad last month deliberately cut off fuel to the engines. Captain Randhawa dismissed the claims as baseless and vowed to take action against the publication. Captain CS Randhawa emphasised that the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau's (AAIB) preliminary report makes no mention of the pilots turning off the switche ...Read More >
SRINAGAR/NEW DELHI: An Army officer posted in north Kashmir has been booked for allegedly assaulting four SpiceJet employees at Srinagar airport on July 26 after being asked to pay for carrying excess cabin baggage on Flight SG 386 to New Delhi. The airline said on Sunday that the attack left its staff with serious injuries, including a spinal fracture and jaw trauma.Read also: 'Jaw broken, spine injured': Army official assaults SpiceJet staff over baggage fee; says he was mistreated, files FIR The officer, attached to the High-Altitude Warfare School in Gulmarg, allegedly refused to pay for c ...Read More >
New Delhi: Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu on Tuesday said there is "no manipulation or dirty business" happening in the investigation into the Air India plane crash that killed 260 people on June 12. His assertion comes against the backdrop of concerns expressed in certain quarters about the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) probe into the fatal crash. Naidu said everyone has to wait for the final AAIB's final probe report to know what exactly happened. "There is no manipulation, or there is no dirty business, happening in the investigation. It is a very clean and very t ...Read More >
New Delhi: A routine flight to Los Angeles turned into an emergency diversion after a communication breakdown in the cabin sparked fears of a hijacking. The aircraft -- operating call-sign 6469 for SkyWest Airlines -- departed from Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Nebraska on the evening of Monday, October 20, bound for Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Shortly after take-off, the cockpit crew realised they had lost contact with the cabin crew via the aircraft's inter-phone system. At the same time, cabin crew were heard banging on the cockpit door in an attempt to be heard. Troubled by the ...Read More >
Gurgaon: Two days after a law student died and his friend suffered critical injuries when a car knocked them down as they stood near railing on the service lane of Delhi-Jaipur highway in the early hours of Tuesday, a civil engineer was arrested on Thursday.Mohit (31), an employee of a private company in the city, told police that he got drowsy while driving. He is staying at a PG facility in Sector 14.The student who died, Harsh Singhal (25), was a resident of Om Nagar colony. His friend Abhishek Kumar (23), who is from Shanti Nagar in Sector 11, is undergoing treatment at a private hospital ...Read More >
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], July 4 (ANI): Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday came down heavily on the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) over its pitch to reconsider the words 'secular and socialist' from the Preamble of the Indian Constitution while saying that it was 'all talk'. He dared and challenged RSS General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale and top leaders of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the centre to remove the words 'secular and socialist' from the Preamble. 'Days before, I heard that some RSS person said that we should remove Secular and Socialist words from ...Read More >
As details emerged from a preliminary inquiry report on the June 12 Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad, the Airline Pilots' Association of India (ALPA) said on Saturday that the probe was "being driven in a direction presuming the guilt of pilots and we strongly object to this line of thought". A statement by ALPA chief Sam Thomas on Saturday, July 12, said, "We have been given a copy of the preliminary report which is believed to be furnished by the AAIB (Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau) ...Read More >
The captain of an Air India plane that crashed last month killing 260 people had promised he would return home hours before jetting off on the doomed flight. Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, 56, was the senior pilot onboard the Boeing 787 Dreamliner that plummeted into a residential area in Ahmedabad on June 12, killing 241 people on board and 19 people on the ground. The veteran aviator, who had more than 8,200 hours in the cockpit, is being looked into by investigators over suggestions he turned off t ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Amid worsening weather conditions and continuous rainfall in parts of Uttar Pradesh, all government and private schools from Classes 1 to 12 in Lucknow will remain closed on Monday, according to district magistrate Visakh G Iyer.Several parts of Varanasi were inundated on Monday following relentless downpours and a steady rise in the water level of the River Ganga. The river has been rising continuously since Saturday, triggering concerns of urban flooding.In response, authorities have suspended all boat operations on the Ganga as a precautionary measure. Several residents were seen ...Read More >
The father of an Air India pilot killed in a June crash has petitioned India's Supreme Court for an independent investigation, arguing the current probe unfairly focuses on pilot error. He seeks a new panel of aviation experts to examine technical and procedural causes, challenging the government's handling of the disaster. The 91-year-old father of the Air India pilot in a June crash that killed 260 has asked India's Supreme Court to order an independent investigation that takes into account ca ...Read More >
Pune: Civil aviation experts sought more action against rampant and illegal construction activities near Lohegaon airport, citing that flights' funnel zone was at risk of being compromised.Referring to the Pune Municipal Corporation's action this week against illegal under-construction buildings in the vicinity of the airport, the experts said too little was being done too late. An Indian Air Force (IAF) veteran, requesting anonymity, said rampant construction around airports couldn't have happened without collusion."This is a huge problem. No one is speaking about it. Collusion between law en ...Read More >
Srinagar, Jul 3 (PTI) The annual Amarnath Yatra began on Thursday with the first batches of pilgrims setting off from the twin base camps in Baltal and Nunwan towards the 3880-metre-high cave shrine in the south Kashmir Himalayas, which houses a naturally formed ice-lingam, officials said. The yatra started early morning from the twin tracks -- the traditional 48-km Nunwan-Pahalgam route and the 14-km Baltal route. The batches of pilgrims, including men, women and sadhus, left from the Nunwan base camp in Pahalgam, in south Kashmir's Anantnag, and Baltal base camp in Sonamarg area of central ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Airline Pilots' Association of India (ALPA) on Saturday raised concerns over the preliminary findings by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) for blaming pilots of the ill-fated plane for the crash. ALPA India President Captain Sam Thomas urged the government to include them in the ongoing probe into the Air India AI-171 crash, to maintain transparency in the investigation. On June 12, Air India flight AI 171 -- a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner -- went down shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad, killing 260 people, including 241 on board the ai ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 15 (ANI): A SpiceJet flight from Delhi to Mumbai on Monday handed over two passengers to CISF for their unruly behaviour for attempting to approach the cockpit while the aircraft was taxiing forcefully. According to a statement from a SpiceJet spokesperson, the incident occurred on flight SG 9282 prior to takeoff. Despite repeated warnings from the cabin crew, fellow passengers, and the Captain, the individuals refused to return to their seats, creating a disruption onboard. 'In the interest of the safety of all passengers and crew, the Captain decided to return the a ...Read More >
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], July 17 (ANI): Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Murlidhar Mohol on Thursday said it would not be appropriate to draw conclusions on the Air India AI 171 crash based on preliminary findings, noting that the report released by the Aircraft Accidents Bureau (AAIB) is only on a primary base, and the full facts will emerge only after the final report is released. I think their report is on a primary base. They have also said that this is not the final report. So, it wont be correct to reach a conclusion. When the final report comes, everything will come out t ...Read More >