Mobile operators violate aviation safety norms in Assam

Dibrugarh: Mobile operators of all hues, from the State owned BSNL to private sector players like Airtel, Aircel, Vodafone, Reliance, Tata Indicom, and Idea Telecom have been fragrantly flouting aviation safety regulations. Most of the mobile towers do not have functional aviation hazard lights. Ironically, even the Doordarshan and All India Radio towers do not switch on the air navigation safety lights regularly. This phenomenon has been noticed in most parts of Assam, and the matter could hardly be any better in the other states of the region.
In most of the cases, incandescent bulbs are used for air navigation hazard lights in the mobile, telecommunication, radio and TV towers. Those in the know are of the opinion that such bulbs often fuse out due to voltage fluctuation and other reasons. This leaves the lights inoperational most of the time. A better practice would be to install LED lights, which last much longer and are less prone to voltage issues, said a source in the Airports Authority of India.
27/12/10 Assam Tribune

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Dec 2010, Safety Dec 2010