The last 48 hours witnessed emergency landings from three international airlines at various locations in India. The reasons stated behind all the emergency landings were technical issues.
A statement from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said the landings were made in Calicut, Kolkata, & Chennai and all three planes made a safe landing.
In the first incident, an aircraft operated by Air Arabia developed some hydraulic issues while operating flight G9-426 from Sharjah to Cochin and required an emergency landing.
The second incident happened on July 16 when a pressurization issue forced an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Abeba to Bangkok to make an emergency landing at the airport in Kolkata.
A third such incident occurred on July 15 when a Srilankan Airlines plane had to make an emergency landing at Chennai Airport due to a hydraulic problem.
“On Saturday, we had two foreign operators make emergency landings. Due to hydraulic troubles, Air Arabia made an emergency landing in Cochin and as a result of pressurization issue Ethiopian landed in Kolkata,” an official from DGCA declared.
A detailed probe has been ordered by DGCA into all three incidents.
Meanwhile, In July till now 4 flight diversions of Indian Airlines took place. Out of the four, 2 diversions took place in the early hours of Sunday.
In a statement issued today, The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said that an Air India (AI) Express aircraft from Calicut to Dubai was diverted to Muscat after a burning smell was noticed coming from one of the vents in the forward galley mid-air.
In the second instance of a flight diversion, an Indigo flight traveling from Sharjah to Hyderabad was diverted to Karachi in Pakistan due to some technical defect reported by the pilot.
The frequency of occurrence of these technical issues has increased over the last few months with SpiceJet at the center of most of the issues. The DGCA has given three weeks ultimatum to SpiceJet to explain why no action should be initiated against it following several problems, including the flight’s diversion to Karachi due to an indicator light malfunction.
Also, DGCA has imposed a fine of Rs. 10 Lakh on SpiceJet for using faulty simulators to train pilots of 737 Max aircraft.
