Daily Archives: August 22, 2014

False fire alarm. IndiGo pilot orders premature aircraft evacuation at Delhi

IndiGo Airbus A320-232(SL) VT-IFK with Sharklets.

The commander of IndiGo flight 6E 176 from Mumbai to New Delhi on August 20, 2014, being performed by VT-IFK with 148 passengers and six crew appears to have ordered a premature evacuation of the aircraft suspecting a fire. The aircraft has just made a normal landing at New Delhi’s IGI airport at 15:35 (11:05Z). Soon after touch-down the Captain …

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Graphics: As other Indian airlines slow down, Spicejet bucks trend and grows

-Click on any of the graphs for a larger view Even as India’s overall domestic passenger traffic in July fell to 5.25 million passengers down about 8% from 5.69 million in June, data released by the civil aviation regulator, the DGCA, shows budget carrier Spicejet Ltd. was the only large airline which grew its traffic while the rest of its …

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