Akasa Air, SpiceJet, and Air India Express “satisfactorily” completed the inspection of all over wing emergency exits on their operating Boeing 737 MAX-8 aircraft by Sunday on the directions of India’s aviation safety regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), a top DGCA official said. Following the mid-flight cabin plug door blowout incident on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX-9 aircraft in the United States (US) on Friday, the DGCA on Saturday directed the three carriers to conduct a “one-time inspection” of emergency exits on all of their Boeing 737 MAX-8 aircraft.
Akasa Air, SpiceJet, and Air India Express are the only Indian carriers that have the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in operation. Although none of the Indian carriers have the MAX-9 variant that was involved in the incident, the DGCA asked Indian carriers to inspect the aircraft as an “abundant precautionary measure”, given that the MAX-8 and MAX-9 are part of the same aircraft family and have numerous similarities. The DGCA directive required the three Indian carriers operating the 737 MAX-8 to complete the inspections by noon on Sunday.
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