DGCA travels to US to defend air safety standards

New Delhi: Amid concerns raised by the US-based aviation regulator the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) over the current civil aviation scenario in India, a team of Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) officials visited the US to meet with the FAA officials last week.
A few months back, the FAA had noted that the DGCA was not meeting its standards on safety and other administrative issues. Following this, a team of DGCA officials, accompanied by a senior official from the Indian embassy in Washington met the FAA officials and presented the actual facts and figures. The officials convinced the FAA to take back its decision demote India from category 1 to category 2 country in the aviation sector, the civil aviation ministry said in a press statement.
“Following the presentation and discussion, FAA was convinced that there has been no compromise on DGCA’s function of continuous oversight of the industry. FAA was fully satisfied with the DGCA’s functioning in various regulatory areas relating to safety,” the ministry said in the statement.
08/09/12 Daily News & Analysis

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Categories: Foreign Sep 2012, Indian Aviation- In General Sep 2012, Safety Sep 2012