Indigo Engine Smoke

IndiGo's Delhi-Chennai flight lands safely in Hyderabad after 'smoke' alert

IndiGo's Delhi-Chennai flight was diverted to Hyderabad after smoke was detected from a passenger's electronic device in an overhead bin. The aircraft landed safely.

IndiGo plane suffers mid-air engine failure, government takes note

The latest incident involving another Pratt & Whitney engine happened when the aircraft was flying to Kolkata from Chennai on January 3

All 14 grounded Pratt & Whitney-powered A320 Neos back in operation

All 14 Pratt & Whitney engine-powered Airbus A320 Neo planes of the two budget carriers -- IndiGo and GoAir -- which were grounded between February and March this year due to safety concerns are now back into operation, officials said. Of these 14 planes, 11 were of IndiGo and three of the Wadia group-promoted GoAir. None of the 11 A320 Neo planes fitted with P&W engines which were taken out of operation due to the engine glitches are now on ground. All these planes are back into service, an IndiGo official said today. A GoAir official also said that its three Airbus A 320 Neos which were grounded by the regulator DGCA on March 12 are now flying again. However, spokespersons of both IndiGo and GoAir were not available for comments. In February, three IndiGo aircraft, with both faulty engines, were grounded. This followed the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issuing an emergency airworthiness directive on February 9 after a few occurrences of aborted ...

Delhi HC refuses to ground entire fleet of IndiGo's A320neo aircraft

The Delhi High Court today refused to ground the entire fleet of IndiGo's A320neo aircraft, which allegedly have defective engines. Advocate Yeshwanth Shenoy's said in his plea that IndiGo's A320neo fleet should be grounded until the manufacturers give in writing that the existing defects have been rectified and the DGCA is satisfied. "Your (petitioner) first prayer seeking direction to Directorate General of Civil Aviation to ground the entire fleet of Airbus A320neo cannot be granted," a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar said. It, however, said Shenoy's plea seeking various other directions to the authorities, including an order to ensure that all accidents are published on DGCA's website within 24 hours of its occurrence, shall be heard on March 20. Aviation watchdog DGCA had on March 12 ordered IndiGo and GoAir to immediately ground 11 A320neo planes powered with a certain series of Pratt & Whitney engines after three incidents of mid-air ...

Aircraft grounding: IndiGo to shift affected passengers to other flights

The airline did not say how many of its flights have been cancelled or how many aircraft are on the ground

Engine smoke forces Delhi-bound IndiGo flight to return to Kolkata airport

All passengers were safe and the incident was reported to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, Indigo said