Mumbai: Officials from the safety department of Airport Authority of India (AAI)’s west region are concerned about the discontinuation of submission of near-miss incident reports to them.
According to a senior official of this department, the last time an incident of near-miss was reported to them was in 2013 but since then no information has been provided to the department. The department is planning to raise this question in the next meeting of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). According to the rules of DGCA, that were designed in 2005, every Air Traffic Control (ATC) center has to give reports about every incident that took place on the runway or in air. An official of safety department said, “Near-miss or any incident that occurs on the runway is directly connected with the safety, and being a safety department, reports of such incidents must be submitted to us.”
According to the sources from AAI, in April 2013, an Air India flight landed at the Mumbai Airport, without taking permission from ATC, as there was some miscommunication between the departments. During the time of the incident, the head of the AAI safety department was in Chennai, so by ATC primary report was directly sent to DGCA, but since then, the department has not received any reports.
25/11/15 Ashita Dadheech/AsianAge
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According to a senior official of this department, the last time an incident of near-miss was reported to them was in 2013 but since then no information has been provided to the department. The department is planning to raise this question in the next meeting of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). According to the rules of DGCA, that were designed in 2005, every Air Traffic Control (ATC) center has to give reports about every incident that took place on the runway or in air. An official of safety department said, “Near-miss or any incident that occurs on the runway is directly connected with the safety, and being a safety department, reports of such incidents must be submitted to us.”
According to the sources from AAI, in April 2013, an Air India flight landed at the Mumbai Airport, without taking permission from ATC, as there was some miscommunication between the departments. During the time of the incident, the head of the AAI safety department was in Chennai, so by ATC primary report was directly sent to DGCA, but since then, the department has not received any reports.
25/11/15 Ashita Dadheech/AsianAge
