{"id":20067,"date":"2022-04-24T10:33:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T05:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=20067"},"modified":"2022-04-24T10:33:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T05:03:13","slug":"spicejet-passenger-tweets-about-unclean-seats-on-the-flight-dgca-grounds-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/24\/spicejet-passenger-tweets-about-unclean-seats-on-the-flight-dgca-grounds-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"SpiceJet passenger tweets about unclean seats on the flight, DGCA grounds plane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><strong>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has grounded a SpiceJet plane after a passenger complained about filthy seats and damaged cabin panels.<\/strong> However, the airline has been told to continue operations once the problems have been resolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SpiceJet_aircraft_at_Varanasi_Airport_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SpiceJet_aircraft_at_Varanasi_Airport_5.jpg 750w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SpiceJet_aircraft_at_Varanasi_Airport_5-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/SpiceJet_aircraft_at_Varanasi_Airport_5-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A passenger on a Bengaluru-Guwahati flight posted photographs of unclean seats and shattered cabin panels to Twitter, tagging the DGCA and other relevant agencies.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Following the tweet, the DGCA ordered quick action, and once the Boeing 737 returned to Bengaluru, DGCA officials performed a surprise check, and it was instructed to fly only after completing required repairs and receiving approval from the DGCA, according to a senior DGCA official.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>He went on to say that the repair work had been completed and that it had been given the green light to restart operations. The incident has been confirmed by a SpiceJet representative.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG-20220414-WA0003.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG-20220414-WA0003.jpg 900w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG-20220414-WA0003-600x333.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG-20220414-WA0003-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG-20220414-WA0003-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG-20220414-WA0003-750x417.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong><em>&#8220;A SpiceJet Boeing 737 aircraft had internal cabin repair done on it when it landed in Bengaluru at roughly 3.40 p.m. on April 19 on the DGCA&#8217;s orders. Following DGCA certification, the aircraft began flying again on April 20.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p><cite>According to the spokesperson<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay tuned and updated with Aviationa2z.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DGCA has grounded a SpiceJet plane after a passenger complained about filthy seats and damaged cabin panels. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6761],"tags":[5783,2332,5782,5784,582,1279,5780],"class_list":{"0":"post-20067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-cabin-panels","9":"tag-directorate-general-of-civil-aviation","10":"tag-filthy-seats","11":"tag-plane-grounded","12":"tag-spicejet-airlines","13":"tag-tweet","14":"tag-unclean-flights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20078,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20067\/revisions\/20078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}