New Delhi: The government's continued failure to strengthen the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and provide adequate safety oversight on ever-growing air traffic here is now leading to alarm bells ringing globally. While the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) will audit the DGCA next month along with the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Japanese civil aviation authority and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) have also raised concerns about the state of aviation safety here as aircraft of Indian carriers fly to those places.
The government says it will create a powerful civil aviation authority that will remove all the deficiencies of the DGCA but that may take about two years and the worries of the international community will remain till then. "Japan had sought technical clarification on the Boeing-777 that an Indian carrier flies to the country. DGCA has sent a reply. Japan is not giving Air India permission to operate the Boeing 787 Dreamliner to the country and the aviation ministry is taking up the issue with them," said sources.
18/07/13 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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The government says it will create a powerful civil aviation authority that will remove all the deficiencies of the DGCA but that may take about two years and the worries of the international community will remain till then. "Japan had sought technical clarification on the Boeing-777 that an Indian carrier flies to the country. DGCA has sent a reply. Japan is not giving Air India permission to operate the Boeing 787 Dreamliner to the country and the aviation ministry is taking up the issue with them," said sources.
18/07/13 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
