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Sunday, 26 July 2015

DGCA to undertake surprise inspections to monitor passenger safety

Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation is mulling one-time surveillance for all domestic airlines to monitor passenger safety. “We have taken permission for one-time surveillance from the Director General to monitor flight operations quality assurance (FOQA),” said a senior DGCA official.
This action was taken after state-owned Air India was unable to provide the required data for its flight AI-513, which risked passengers’ lives on its Bengaluru-Hyderabad flight. The aircraft touched and bounced off the runway while making a landing attempt.

On a complaint of a passenger, the DGCA started a probe, only to realise that Air India did not have digital flight data recording (DFDR), which furnishes all details of the flight, including temperature, take-off and landing details, cabin pressure, and weather report.
Read news in full 21/07/15 Sunny Sen/The Financial Express
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