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Notice says airline snags due to poor maintenance, and failure to pay vendors for spare parts

NEW DELHI: A SpiceJet Boeing 737 freighter (that carries only cargo) scheduled to fly from Kolkata to Chongqing in China, returned to Kolkata on Tuesday due to unserviceable weather radar.

Eighth incident of technical malfunction on a SpiceJet aircraft in last 18 days

MUMBAI: In two incidents involving SpiceJet flights on Tuesday, the outer pane of the cockpit windshield of a turbo prop aircraft from Kandla cracked mid-air, forcing the pilots to carry out a priority landing in Mumbai, while a suspected fuel leak led to a Delhi-Dubai flight being diverted to Karachi.

Expert blames airline for cutting corners, poor organisational culture

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday ordered a probe into the incident where SpiceJet's Delhi-Dubai flight was diverted to Karachi as the fuel indicator started malfunctioning. Read further on Dynamite News:

When an inspection of the SpiceJet’s Delhi-Dubai flight was done at the Karachi airport, no visual leak was observed from the left tank, officials noted

Pankaj Dubey, a senior advocate in Jabalpur who was on board the SpiceJet SG2962 flight that filled up with smoke on Saturday, recounts to TOI the half-hour of terror as passengers clamped wet towels on their noses and feared that the plane would explode at any moment.

Pankaj Dubey, a senior advocate in Jabalpur who was on board the SpiceJet SG2962 flight that filled up with smoke on Saturday, recounts to TOI the half-hour of terror as passengers clamped wet towels on their noses and feared that the plane would explode at any moment.

A Jabalpur-bound SpiceJet flight returned to the Delhi airport on Saturday morning after passengers claimed smoke in the plane.

In another incident on June 19, a flight for Jabalpur had to return to Delhi due to cabin pressurisation issues