Mumbai: Days after five people died in a helicopter crash in Murbad, an advisory panel has recently asked the aviation regulator to take action against airlines whose aircraft were in close range of the ill-fated copter that crashed on September 29.
When an aircraft meets with an accident, it transmits a signal of the emergency situation.
Subsequently, all aircraft flying within that certain range also catch this distress signal which is sent out through the ‘Emergency Locator Transmitter’ system.
dna reported on Friday how a Jet Airways passenger aircraft had informed the Mumbai Air Traffic Control informing that the ill-fated helicopter was trying to get in touch with them.
The panel, Civil Aviation Safety Advisory Council, has contended that the other aircraft which, at that point of time, had been flying within that air range, would have been aware of the tragedy as the emergency system would have been alerted. It is this logic that the advisory panel has put up to the aviation regulator, Directorate General of Civil Aviation. It has raised the question as to why the other aircraft did not monitor and alert the air traffic control — something that they are, as per rule, supposed to do.
08/10/13 Shahkar Abidi/Daily News & Analysis
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When an aircraft meets with an accident, it transmits a signal of the emergency situation.
Subsequently, all aircraft flying within that certain range also catch this distress signal which is sent out through the ‘Emergency Locator Transmitter’ system.
dna reported on Friday how a Jet Airways passenger aircraft had informed the Mumbai Air Traffic Control informing that the ill-fated helicopter was trying to get in touch with them.
The panel, Civil Aviation Safety Advisory Council, has contended that the other aircraft which, at that point of time, had been flying within that air range, would have been aware of the tragedy as the emergency system would have been alerted. It is this logic that the advisory panel has put up to the aviation regulator, Directorate General of Civil Aviation. It has raised the question as to why the other aircraft did not monitor and alert the air traffic control — something that they are, as per rule, supposed to do.
08/10/13 Shahkar Abidi/Daily News & Analysis
