{"id":21697,"date":"2022-06-21T06:29:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T00:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=21697"},"modified":"2022-06-21T06:29:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T00:59:23","slug":"monica-khanna-was-the-pilot-who-safely-landed-the-spicejet-flight-after-it-caught-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/21\/monica-khanna-was-the-pilot-who-safely-landed-the-spicejet-flight-after-it-caught-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Monica Khanna was the Pilot Who Safely Landed the SpiceJet Flight After It Caught Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><strong>Captain Monica Khanna, <\/strong>the pilot in command, turned off the affected engine and landed safely at <strong>Patna airport<\/strong>, with all passengers and crew members unharmed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\">According to <strong>Manavjit Singh Dhillon, Senior Superintendent of Police<\/strong>, Patna Police, all passengers were successfully evacuated and <strong>no injuries<\/strong> were reported.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Meet-Monica-Khanna-The-Pilot-Who-Safely-Landed-The-SpiceJet-Flight-After-It-Caught-Fire_62b0450cdf235-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Captain Monica Khanna, the pilot in command, turned off the affected engine and landed safely at Patna airport, Read more \" class=\"wp-image-21698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Meet-Monica-Khanna-The-Pilot-Who-Safely-Landed-The-SpiceJet-Flight-After-It-Caught-Fire_62b0450cdf235-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Meet-Monica-Khanna-The-Pilot-Who-Safely-Landed-The-SpiceJet-Flight-After-It-Caught-Fire_62b0450cdf235-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Meet-Monica-Khanna-The-Pilot-Who-Safely-Landed-The-SpiceJet-Flight-After-It-Caught-Fire_62b0450cdf235-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Meet-Monica-Khanna-The-Pilot-Who-Safely-Landed-The-SpiceJet-Flight-After-It-Caught-Fire_62b0450cdf235-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Meet-Monica-Khanna-The-Pilot-Who-Safely-Landed-The-SpiceJet-Flight-After-It-Caught-Fire_62b0450cdf235-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Meet-Monica-Khanna-The-Pilot-Who-Safely-Landed-The-SpiceJet-Flight-After-It-Caught-Fire_62b0450cdf235-1140x855.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Meet-Monica-Khanna-The-Pilot-Who-Safely-Landed-The-SpiceJet-Flight-After-It-Caught-Fire_62b0450cdf235.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>image courtesy &#8211; indianews<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It might have been far worse after the SpiceJet flight from Patna to Delhi <em>caught fire mid-flight, but Captain Monica Khanna kept her cool and skillfully landed the plane,<\/em> saving many lives in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After one of the engines caught fire shortly after <strong>take-off from Patna, the Delhi-bound aeroplane with 185 passengers <\/strong>made an emergency landing at Patna airport. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>Monica Khanna<\/strong> works for SpiceJet Limited as a highly skilled pilot. <\/p><p><strong>Monica<\/strong>, according to her Instagram bio, enjoys travelling and is passionate about the <strong>latest fashion and trends.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"419\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Meet-Monica-Khanna-The-Pilot-Who-Safely-Landed-The-SpiceJet-Flight-After-It-Caught-Fire_62b044f15bc6a.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Meet-Monica-Khanna-The-Pilot-Who-Safely-Landed-The-SpiceJet-Flight-After-It-Caught-Fire_62b044f15bc6a.jpg 800w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Meet-Monica-Khanna-The-Pilot-Who-Safely-Landed-The-SpiceJet-Flight-After-It-Caught-Fire_62b044f15bc6a-600x314.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Meet-Monica-Khanna-The-Pilot-Who-Safely-Landed-The-SpiceJet-Flight-After-It-Caught-Fire_62b044f15bc6a-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Meet-Monica-Khanna-The-Pilot-Who-Safely-Landed-The-SpiceJet-Flight-After-It-Caught-Fire_62b044f15bc6a-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Meet-Monica-Khanna-The-Pilot-Who-Safely-Landed-The-SpiceJet-Flight-After-It-Caught-Fire_62b044f15bc6a-750x393.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Image credits to indianews<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Captain Monica Khanna has been lauded for her prompt and appropriate response to an emergency scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The fact that no passengers were hurt during the <em>plane&#8217;s overweight landing adds to the feat&#8217;s impressiveness. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With officer Balpreet Singh, Khanna was the pilot-in-command. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay Tuned with us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join Our <strong>Telegram group<\/strong> for Latest Aviation Updates  :- <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/aviationa2z\">https:\/\/t.me\/aviationa2z<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Monica Khanna, the pilot in command, turned off the affected engine and landed safely at Patna airport, Read more <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21699,"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":[399],"tags":[2030,598,523,317],"class_list":{"0":"post-21697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-aviation-a2z-news","9":"tag-captain","10":"tag-engine","11":"tag-pilots"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21697","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=21697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21700,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21697\/revisions\/21700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}