New Delhi: On Tuesday, SpiceJet’s Kandla-Mumbai plane had to make an emergency landing in Mumbai after cracks developed in the mid-air or the outer windshield. However, fortunately, all the passengers and crew members on board the plane landed safely. This is the second unfortunate case of aviation-related disturbances in a day. Earlier, another SpiceJet aircraft had a technical fault, due to which it had to make an emergency landing in Karachi, Pakistan. This plane was going from Delhi to Dubai.
Incident at an altitude of 23 thousand feet
Officials said the outer glass of its windshield was broken when SpiceJet’s Kandla-Mumbai flight was at an altitude of 23,000 feet. He told that after this the pilots landed the plane on a priority basis at the Mumbai airport. Reacting to the latest incident, SpiceJet said, “On July 5, 2022, SpiceJet Q400 aircraft was on flight SG 3324 (Kandla – Mumbai). When it was at an altitude of 23,000 feet, the windshield on its P2 side broke the outer glass. The pressure was observed to be normal. The aircraft landed safely in Mumbai and all the passengers were evacuated safely.
This is the seventh incident of technical fault in SpiceJet’s aircraft in 17 days
Priority landing was carried out at the Mumbai airport on Tuesday following a crack in the windshield at an altitude of 23,000 feet. According to DGCA officials, this is at least the seventh incident of a technical snag in a SpiceJet aircraft in the last 17 days. Earlier in the day, SpiceJet’s Delhi-Dubai flight was diverted to Karachi due to a fault in the fuel indicator. Officials said the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is probing both the incidents on Tuesday as well as the last five incidents.
Earlier, another SpiceJet aircraft, Boeing 737 MAX, which was going from Delhi to Dubai, had a problem with the fuel indicator. Suddenly there was a decrease in the amount of fuel in the left tank due to which the aircraft was diverted towards Karachi. Officials said that when checks were carried out at the Karachi airport, no leak was found from the left tank. That is, there was a mistake in the indicator itself.
