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In 2006, the then civil aviation minister Praful Patel went out of his way to bat for the Naresh Goyal-led airline. He was called 'a minister for Naresh Goyal' and for a minister to bat for a private company and so openly was unprecedented.

Jet Airways is immersed in a crisis that it is struggling to get out of. With Jet’s inability to repay debts, most of the aircrafts in the fleet are grounded and about 41 aircrafts are currently operating. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has said on March 19 that the fleet is expecting a further downsizing.
 

Amid the crisis that has racked Jet in the recent times, around 260 pilots from Jet Airways have now applied to join SpiceJet airlines. 

The government on Tuesday called an emergency meeting with Jet Airways management to contain the crisis. The meeting took place after civil aviation minister Suresh Prabhu intervened and asked the secretary to take stock of the situation.
 

The civil aviation secretary added that around 30-35 flights of SpiceJet are likely to be affected on Thursday. SpiceJet has the largest number of the controversial Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft.

The comment was made minutes after the United Kingdom joined the force of nations grounding the B737 planes after it crashed for the second time in a span of five months

The core problem, according to aviation experts, is that the pilots are not being trained on the Boeing 737 simulators, which in turn is hindering their ability to take sudden decisions and control the plane during the crisis.

DGCA will take a decision to ground the Boeing 737-MAX planes in India on Wednesday at 4 pm post the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines flight, earlier this week, killing 157 people.

LCA Tejas MK I was accorded the final operational clearance by aviation certifying authorities. The Indian Air Force (IAF) will soon request for 83 Tejas MK-1A

The Hindu report claimed that the Narendra Modi government's agreement for acquiring 36 Rafale jets gave major concessions to the Dassault Aviation, whereas this was Congress's defence minister AK Antony's doing

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Twitter users who attacked Rahul Gandhi and his Congress with the hashtag on Tuesday insinuated that the president of the oldest party was making so much of noise over the Rafale deal at the behest of Dassault Aviation's competitor, the European Consortium that makes Eurofighter Typhoon