New Delhi: The Indian aviation safety regulator will come under the scanner of the American Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) from Monday. While the FAA is coming to examine the serious safety concerns raised earlier by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the latter had last month withdrawn those fears.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is wary of a downgrade as FAA had last year raised concerns on the regulator's ability to ensure oversight of aviation here. And these concerns remain largely unaddressed, except on paper, and the sword of a downgrade hangs on Indian aviation.
The FAA had written a letter to DGCA chief Arun Mishra in July 2012, saying that it is "concerned that the aviation safety oversight provided by the government of India may no longer meet minimum international standards established by ICAO... extreme understaffing of technically qualified personnel raise concerns..."
09/09/13 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is wary of a downgrade as FAA had last year raised concerns on the regulator's ability to ensure oversight of aviation here. And these concerns remain largely unaddressed, except on paper, and the sword of a downgrade hangs on Indian aviation.
The FAA had written a letter to DGCA chief Arun Mishra in July 2012, saying that it is "concerned that the aviation safety oversight provided by the government of India may no longer meet minimum international standards established by ICAO... extreme understaffing of technically qualified personnel raise concerns..."
09/09/13 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
