Nagpur: A team of two safety officers from Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) cleared both, the Cessna plane and the trainee pilot for flying, subject to some conditions. The team was here to investigate the skidding of Cessna training plane - Charlie 172 - of the Nagpur Flying Club (NFC).
"The team from Mumbai came on December 24 and on December 26 they gave a written clearance. The condition is that the plane, Cessna 172 R should be inspected by an external engineer and the trainee pilot should be given a clearance after flying under the chief flying inspector (CFI)," said MAH Khan, NFC in-charge.
Both, the aircraft and the trainee pilot were grounded after the skid on November 30. Trainee pilot Captain Rohit Sinha took off for a solo training session at 2.20pm and the incident occurred while he was landing at 3.06pm.
28/12/12 Times of India
