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Chennai: Madras high court has clarified that private self-financing medical colleges are required to pay only a stipend, and not a full salary, to in-service govt doctors pursuing postgraduate or super-specialty courses under the govt quota.A division bench of Justice R Subramanian and Justice K Surender passed the order while partly allowing a batch of appeals moved by Karpaga Vinayaga Medical College and others. They challenged a single judge's order that directed private colleges to pay sala ...Read More >
New Delhi: Details emerging a day later on the incident involving two unruly women passengers who delayed a Spicejet flight bound from Delhi to Mumbai on Monday (July 14) evening reveal a middle-aged lady and her mother had created a major ruckus since they were unhappy with the cooling of the air-conditioning system. Their behaviour probably put at risk the lives of 190 passengers on board as they kept banging on the cockpit door even as the pilots were taxiing for take-off. A police complaint ...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 ...Read More >
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 ...Read More >
Two unruly passengers were offloaded from a SpiceJet flight at Delhi airport after attempting to enter the cockpit during taxiing. The disturbance delayed the flight to Mumbai by several hours. Despite crew and captain requests, the passengers refused to comply, leading to their removal by security. Security personnel had to intervene at Delhi airport on Monday when a SpiceJet flight faced an unexpected disruption caused by two unruly passengers. Both attempted to forcefully enter the cockpit w ...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 onbo ...Read More >
SRINAGAR: A month after an Air India passenger plane crashed in Ahmedabad killing 260 people, a Srinagar-bound SpiceJet flight from Delhi witnessed a sudden free fall near Banihal Pass on Saturday, causing panic among the passengers travelling in the plane. Arjumand Talib Hussain, a passenger on SpiceJet flight SG-385 from Delhi-Srinagar shared a video claiming the aircraft went into a free fall of several hundred meters over Banihal Pass. In the 29 second video, which has gone viral on social ...Read More >
Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu on Saturday addressed the media regarding the preliminary investigation report issued by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) on the recent Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad. He praised the AAIB for its swift and professional response, particularly the successful recovery and decoding of the aircraft's black box -- an important milestone in the investigation process. He said: "I would like to appreciate the job done by AAIB. ...Read More >
Visakhapatnam: Union aviation minister K. Ram Mohan Naidu on Saturday said that it was too early to jump to conclusions over the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) report on the Air India aircraft crash in Ahmedabad, the findings are not final. "So, let's not jump to any conclusions at this stage. Let us wait for the final report. These are technical things and that is why we have these investigation agencies. Once they are clear, they are going to submit the final report. At this st ...Read More >
Visakhapatnam, Jul 12 (PTI) Union Aviation Minister K Ram Mohan Naidu on Saturday said that it is immature to jump to conclusions at the juncture over the recent Air India flight crash in Ahmedabad, as the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has only released the preliminary report. On June 12, a London-bound Air India flight, AI 171, crashed immediately after take off in Ahmedabad, killing 260 people. "So, let's not jump to any conclusions at this stage. Let us wait for the final re ...Read More >
New Delhi, India - Just moments before a fatal Air India crash on June 12, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner's fuel-control switches in the cockpit mysteriously moved from the "run" to the "cutoff" position, an early investigation into the disaster has revealed. Flipping to cutoff almost immediately cuts the engines. The investigation's report, issued by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) early on Saturday, found that both engines shut down within the space of one second, leading to ...Read More >
New Delhi: An Indian-origin man has been arrested in the United States for allegedly attacking a fellow passenger during a domestic flight. The incident occurred on June 30 aboard a Frontier Airlines flight traveling from Philadelphia to Miami and was caught on video that has since gone viral. The video clip shows 21-year-old Ishaan Sharma, a Newark resident, in a physical altercation with another passenger, Keanu Evans, with both men appearing to grab each other by the neck as stunned passenge ...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 ...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. ...Read More >
Srinagar, July 3: Panic ensued on a Japan Airlines Boeing Dreamliner 737 on Monday when the plane suddenly plummeted nearly 26,000 feet. The scary episode apparently led passengers to write goodbye letters to loved ones and details of their finances, fearing they would not survive. People on the plane recalled that there was a boom, and after that, oxygen masks fell off within a few seconds. The flight attendants started shouting, asking everyone to put on their oxygen masks. The incident comes ...Read More >
The airline said its crew reacted swiftly to de-escalate the situation, moving the affected passenger to the business class. Air India on June 28 reported an incident of unruly behaviour involving two passengers aboard flight AI 454 flying from Amritsar to Delhi, leading to the intervention of cabin crew and airport security. The mid-air fight began just before landing, when the crew witnessed two passengers in a verbal altercation. "During cabin preparations for landing, a member of our cabin ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], June 28 (ANI): Air India has confirmed an incident of disruptive passenger behaviour aboard flight AI454 from Amritsar to Delhi on Saturday, prompting intervention from cabin crew and airport security. Air India confirmed that an incident of unruly passenger behaviour occurred on board flight AI454 from Amritsar to Delhi on 28 June. 'During cabin preparations for landing, a member of our cabin crew noticed a passenger standing in the aisle, engaged in a verbal altercation wi ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: A husband-wife spat reportedly turned so ugly on an Amritsar-Delhi flight Saturday and when a co-passenger tried to intervene, the man ended up having the fight with the latter too. The cabin crew then took co-passenger to business class to seat him away from the angry husband, who was handed over to security on arrival. "The third passenger had just tried to intervene and calm thing down," said sources. The latest case of unruly behaviour happened on AI 454 Amritsar-Delhi.An AI spoke ...Read More >
From Lucknow To Stars: 5 Lesser-Known Facts About Shubhanshu Shukla - 1st Indian On International Space Station A Mumbai-bound Ethiopian Airlines flight made an emergency landing in the city at around 1:40 am on Friday, reportedly after seven passengers onboard fell sick. According to a report by The Times of India, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft experienced a 'depressurisation' issue. Meanwhile, upon landing, the sick were attended by a medical team at the airport. Furthermore, one of the ...Read More >
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