AI pilots braced for emergency

New Delhi: There was chaos at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport as two of Air India’s international flights made emergency landings on April 9. Passengers however, escaped unhurt both times.
Air India believes that these were not miracles, but the result of systematic training programme for pilots in handling emergencies.
The reason for Air India to be confident about is its flight-training simulator based in Mumbai that can put a pilot through every imaginable emergency situation.
“The advantage in a simulator is that you can handle any type of emergency that can be encountered in an aircraft without any danger to the crew or even the aeroplane,” says addl general manager (Operations), Capt Vivek Kulkarni.
Air India trains all of its 650 odd pilots on simulators and also conducts flight tests routinely, so even if an emergency arises the pilots feel confident and can land the aircraft without any trouble.
24/04/07 Rohit Chandavarkar/CNN-IBN

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Categories: Air India Apr 2007, Safety Apr 2007