The pilots of the flight found that the warning was coming from the baggage door at the rear end of the plane. The fuselage warning light lit up when it was on ‘rotation’, forcing them to abandon their journeys and return. 5QYIKKg5jhĪ day before the 25 June incident, a similar mishap took place on a SpiceJet Q400 aircraft (Guwahati-Kolkata) flight. #DGCA has begun investigations on all four incidents involving the airline in the recent past. In an incident on June 25, a Patna- #Guwahati #SpiceJet aircraft had to abort takeoff as a fuselage door sign lit up, for which the #Q400 plane had to return to bay at #Patna airport. A flight heading to Jabalpur returned to Delhi after the crew members observed smoke in the cabin around 5,000 feet altitude. The low-cost airline has been facing a spate of glitches and one such instance took place on 2 July. The aircraft landed safely in Mumbai,” SpiceJet said in a statement. Pressurisation was observed to be normal. During cruise at FL230 (23,000 feet altitude), P2 side windshield outer pane cracked.
“On 5th July, 2022, SpiceJet Q400 aircraft was operating SG 3324 (Kandla-Mumbai). The aircraft did not face any cabin pressurisation issues. Officials said the Kandla-Mumbai flight of SpiceJet was at 23,000 feet altitude when the windshield’s outer pane cracked.
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This plane departed from Karachi at 9.45 pm (IST) with the passengers to Dubai.Įarlier, the outer windshield of SpiceJet’s Q400 turboprop aircraft flying from Kandla in Gujarat made a priority landing in Mumbai after its outer windshield developed a crack mid-air, the airline reported.
SpiceJet’s replacement aircraft was despatched from Mumbai and landed at the Karachi airport at 6.15 pm (IST). “Apparently, there was a problem with the aircraft’s light indicator machinery, but it could not be repaired immediately so another aircraft was arranged to take the passengers to Dubai,” he said.Īnother source at the Karachi airport said around 150 passengers were on board the aircraft and were provided food and refreshments. The airline said that the aircraft was diverted to Karachi due to an indicator malfunctioning.Īccording to officials, the plane with around 150 passengers on board started showing unusual fuel quantity reduction from its left tank when it was mid-air, following which it was diverted to Karachi.Īs per a PTI report, an official from the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCCA) said the pilot of SpiceJet's Delhi-Dubai flight contacted the control tower while flying over Pakistan airspace, informing that the aircraft has developed some technical fault.Īfter the plane was allowed to land on humanitarian grounds, engineers of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) worked with SpiceJet crew to locate and rectify the technical faultĪn inspection at Karachi airport revealed no visual leak from the left tank. Here’s a closer look at the malfunctions that have taken place on the low-cost carrier and its repercussions.Ī SpiceJet’s Delhi-Dubai flight had to make an emergency landing in Karachi, Pakistan, after it developed a technical fault. “We are concerned over passengers’ safety and a team has been formed to investigate all the incidents thoroughly and submit the report at the earliest,” a senior DGCA official was quoted as saying to NDTV. The Indian aviation regulator, Directorate General Of Civil Aviation (DGCA), has also ordered an investigation into the matter. The incidents also weighed heavily on the aircraft’s performance at the stock market - with its shares falling over 2 per cent on Tuesday to end at Rs 37.65 apiece on the Bombay Stock Exchange while on the National Stock Exchange (NSE), it declined 2.20 per cent to settle at Rs 37.70 per share. The Ajay Singh-led carrier was caught in two separate incidents on Tuesday, taking the total number of technical malfunction incidents on SpiceJet aircraft in the last 17 days to seven. Budget carrier SpiceJet is facing turbulence.
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