New Delhi: Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is conducting engineering audit of government-owned Air India fleet to assess maintenance records of its aircraft, following an incident of a tail-pipe fire in one of its plane that took place at Mumbai airport last week.
The audit is being carried out across all its four bases, including Mumbai and Delhi, they said.
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"We are conducting engineering audit of Air India across its all four bases, namely Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Hyderabad. We want to check whether the airline's aircraft maintenance engineers are doing proper checks of the fleet and also ensure that aircraft are not being flown with deferred defects," sources at the DGCA said on Tuesday.
Besides, the audit, of the entire fleet of 107 planes, also covers availability of spares and other maintenance related issues, they said.
In 2014, the aviation regulator had conducted an engineering audit of SpiceJet aircraft.
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The audit is being carried out across all its four bases, including Mumbai and Delhi, they said.
Representational image. PTIRepresentational image. PTI
"We are conducting engineering audit of Air India across its all four bases, namely Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Hyderabad. We want to check whether the airline's aircraft maintenance engineers are doing proper checks of the fleet and also ensure that aircraft are not being flown with deferred defects," sources at the DGCA said on Tuesday.
Besides, the audit, of the entire fleet of 107 planes, also covers availability of spares and other maintenance related issues, they said.
In 2014, the aviation regulator had conducted an engineering audit of SpiceJet aircraft.
15/09/15 First Post
