{"id":339251,"date":"2022-09-01T02:28:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T07:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=339251"},"modified":"2022-09-01T03:32:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T09:02:37","slug":"spicejet-delhi-nashik-flight-returns-midway-due-to-autopilot-snag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/spicejet-delhi-nashik-flight-returns-midway-due-to-autopilot-snag\/","title":{"rendered":"SpiceJet Delhi-Nashik flight returns midway due to &#8216;autopilot&#8217; snag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A SpiceJet flight that took off for Nashik in Maharashtra from the Indira Gandhi International Airport here on Thursday morning returned midway to the national capital due to an &#8216;autopilot&#8217; snag, a DGCA official said.<\/p>\n<p>The Boeing 737 aircraft landed safely, he said.<\/p>\n<p>SpiceJet B737 aircraft VT-SLP, operating flight SG-8363 (Delhi-Nashik), on Thursday was involved in an air turnback due to an autopilot snag, the official said.<\/p>\n<p>The airline in a statement later said its Delhi-Nashik flight returned to Delhi after the flight crew experienced a malfunction with the autopilot system.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft made a normal landing at Delhi and passengers disembarked normally, SpiceJet said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Facing financial turbulence amid high fuel prices and rupee depreciation, SpiceJet aircraft have been involved in a series of incidents in the past as well, following which the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had issued a show-cause notice to the airline.<\/p>\n<p>On July 27, the aviation safety regulator had also ordered the airline to operate a maximum of 50 per cent of its flights for eight weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpiceJet flight that took off for Nashik in Maharashtra from the Indira Gandhi International Airport here on Thursday morning returned midway to the national capital due to an &#8216;autopilot&#8217; snag, a DGCA official said. The Boeing 737 aircraft landed safely, he said. SpiceJet B737 aircraft VT-SLP, operating flight SG-8363 (Delhi-Nashik), on Thursday was involved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":339252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339253,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339251\/revisions\/339253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/339252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}