'Safety oversight prog' introduced to avoid airline incidents

New Delhi: With incidents of near collisions between planes on the increase, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation has introduced a "safety oversight programme" to curb these occurences.
Revealing that 70 per cent of incidents involving airplanes are due to pilot error and most are due to non-compliance of procedures which are "avoidable", Kanu Gohain, the Director General of DGCA, said the aviation regulatory body has stepped up measures to ensure strict compliance of operational procedures.
"CVR and ATC type monitoring systems are all in place to check compliance of procedures," he said, adding operators are encouraged to observe "self quality control, self audit and self surveillance".
RNP/RNAV services, which allow aircrafts to fly in precise flight paths, have also been introduced, he said at an international conference on aviation here. These computerised avionics systems can reduce flight distance, reduce noise emissions, and above all, increase safety.
Also, the space-based augmented navigation system GAGAN, jointly developed by AAI and the ISRO, underwent ground trial recently, with "significant accuracy obtained", Gohain said.
01/11/07 PTI/Economic Times

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