The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Monday said that it is carrying out an inspection of the entire SpiceJet aircraft fleet after its Mumbai-Durgapur plane ran into a severe turbulence leading to injuries to 17 people. Two of the injured — one with head injury and another with spinal injury — are in ICU right now, it mentioned.
The DGCA took off the roster the flight’s crew, aircraft maintenance engineer (AME) and in-charge of SpiceJet’s maintenance control centre who cleared this aircraft to take off from Durgapur, pending a probe.
At present, the aircraft that was involved in the incident on Sunday is grounded in Kolkata, the DGCA said. The rest of the SpiceJet aircraft fleet are in operation.