DIAL plans long-term safety measures for IGI

With a spate of accidents behind them last year, the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) is planning a series of long-term safety measures. A network of wireless hand-held devices that can record incidents and transfer them to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in real time tops the list.
“The idea is to capture an incident on time and ensure that correct and reliable information is passed on without any loss of time. This will help in analysis of incidents and understanding what went wrong. These hand-held devices will have an inspection module datasheet and an accident and incident module datasheet installed in them. Within five minutes, the DGCA and the authorities at the airport will be conveyed all information related to an incident recorded by it. We are examining the system, which is popular at airports across the world, and hope to implement it in about four weeks’ time,” said Andrew Harrison, Chief Operating Officer, DIAL.
The Delhi airport was under public scrutiny for all the wrong reasons last year — an Air Deccan employee was found dead on the runway, Bihar’s Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi was injured, an Air Sahara coach collided with an Indian Airlines bus and a CISF inspector rammed his bike into an AAI official.
04/02/08 Anubhuti Vishnoi/Delhi Newsline

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Categories: airports Feb 2008