FAA team to check out safety record

New Delhi: It's reality check time for Indian aviation. Last September, the aviation ministry made tall promises about strengthening the Directorate General of Civil Aviation — agency responsible for ensuring safe flying — after the US Federal Administration (FAA) had threatened to downgrade Indian aviation from the current top billing to sub-Sahara Africa levels.
Now a FAA team is coming to Delhi on July 8 and 9 for "final consultation" with authorities here and seeing if the systems promised to enhance aviation safety are being put in place. "There was a list of things that we needed to do. Last September we informed FAA that the implementation process had started by getting almost 600 technical posts sanctioned along with having much needed rules for safe flying. DGCA will be made an autonomous aviation authority. This process is already in motion and hopefully we will retain the top billing," said a senior official.
19/06/10 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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Categories: Foreign Jun 2010, Safety Jun 2010