An official said that on Thursday morning, a SpiceJet flight headed for Nashik made a loop back to Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport because of an “autopilot” issue. At 6.54 a.m., Delhi-bound SpiceJet flight SG 8363 took off and arrived back an hour later.
All the passengers were safely shifted to a smaller Q400 aircraft soon after the Boeing 737 landed harmless.
“SpiceJet B737 aircraft VT-SLP, operating flight SG-8363 (Delhi-Nashik) on Thursday, was involved in an air turnback due to an autopilot snag,” a DGCA official was quoted as saying.
After a string of accidents involving SpiceJet aircraft, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) gave the airline a show-cause notice. The airline announced on Wednesday that its net loss for the June quarter increased to 789 crore.
