New Delhi: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) today said
it would conduct surprise checks on scheduled as well as chartered
carriers throughout the year.
The development comes at a time the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is about to start its global safety audit.
In the last few days, the DGCA had taken action against several airlines and private charters and grounded 14 aircraft for violating safety norms. The regulator took stringent and novel actions, including directing low-cost carrier SpiceJet to refund fares to all passengers of a Mumbai-Delhi flight that was delayed by about five hours on July 28. An engineering glitch had forced the pilots to abort takeoff and return to the bay.
Sources said civil aviation minister P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju had asked the DGCA to prepare a monthly programme of surveillance of airports, scheduled, non-scheduled and general aviation companies, foreign airlines and the aviation wings of state governments.
According to ministry officials, a broad timetable of the checks will be prepared but the details, such as the name of the airline, will be kept under wraps till the last moment.
“Checks would be performed on two scheduled and two non-scheduled airlines and on an airport on a monthly basis. The basic intent of the spot checks and surveillance would be to assess the capability of an operator to carry out aviation operations with an acceptable level of safety,” a senior ministry official said.
18/08/14 Telegraph
The development comes at a time the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is about to start its global safety audit.
In the last few days, the DGCA had taken action against several airlines and private charters and grounded 14 aircraft for violating safety norms. The regulator took stringent and novel actions, including directing low-cost carrier SpiceJet to refund fares to all passengers of a Mumbai-Delhi flight that was delayed by about five hours on July 28. An engineering glitch had forced the pilots to abort takeoff and return to the bay.
Sources said civil aviation minister P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju had asked the DGCA to prepare a monthly programme of surveillance of airports, scheduled, non-scheduled and general aviation companies, foreign airlines and the aviation wings of state governments.
According to ministry officials, a broad timetable of the checks will be prepared but the details, such as the name of the airline, will be kept under wraps till the last moment.
“Checks would be performed on two scheduled and two non-scheduled airlines and on an airport on a monthly basis. The basic intent of the spot checks and surveillance would be to assess the capability of an operator to carry out aviation operations with an acceptable level of safety,” a senior ministry official said.
18/08/14 Telegraph
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