Bengaluru: After a SpiceJet aircraft caused a safety scare on Tuesday, the Director General of Civil Aviation has launched a probe to determine if any safety procedure was violated. If the airline is found guilty, it would not go into the records as a stray incident. For, 695 cases of safety procedure violations by airlines were reported in the country in three years and three months, documents accessed from the ministry of civil aviation reveal.
From serious violations such as fuel leaking into fuselage to operating without life jackets or breathing equipment and from issues like crew being under the influence of alcohol to operating without adequate number of trainers, the nine scheduled airlines were found wanting in several areas of safety. The violations were reported from January 2012 to March 2015. Data for the remaining nine months of 2015 will released later.
The first three months of 2015 saw 39 violations by six airlines, while three others had not had any violation. In the other three years, 2014 was the worse with 275 cases, up from 168 in 2013, which was a dip from 213 in 2012.
04/03/16 Chethan Kumar/Times of India
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From serious violations such as fuel leaking into fuselage to operating without life jackets or breathing equipment and from issues like crew being under the influence of alcohol to operating without adequate number of trainers, the nine scheduled airlines were found wanting in several areas of safety. The violations were reported from January 2012 to March 2015. Data for the remaining nine months of 2015 will released later.
The first three months of 2015 saw 39 violations by six airlines, while three others had not had any violation. In the other three years, 2014 was the worse with 275 cases, up from 168 in 2013, which was a dip from 213 in 2012.
04/03/16 Chethan Kumar/Times of India
