New Delhi: One airline does not report incidents which compromise on safety, another does not have the technology for two-way communication with its planes, the third appoints a top operations officer who is not a pilot and all Indian carriers face a serious shortage of aviation safety officials mandatorily required.
A long list of such discrepancies and violations have come to light in a financial audit carried out by the aviation regulator DGCA, which has taken a serious view of such non-compliance or flouting of safety rules by the carriers and decided to take urgent action to rectify the situation.
Top Kingfisher officials have been asked by DGCA to come up with a detailed time-bound plan to implement rectificatory measures on Monday, while the financial surveillance of cash-strapped Air India is to be conducted by DGCA in the next few days. All other airlines have also been given different dates over the week to appear before DGCA, sources said.
The financial audit report has noted that widespread sickness in the aviation industry was seriously impacting safety of flight operations and recommended action under Aircraft Rules and the Civil Aviation Requirements.
08/01/12 ZeeNews
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