New Delhi: In an unprecedented move, India’s aviation regulator on Thursday served a string of notices to SpiceJet — which saw three of its planes veering off runways on landing in as many days — for “lack of safety management system in the organisation” and alleged failure to take timely action to prevent these back-to-back incidents. The notices to four senior officials seek their replies within 15 days after which the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) will decide on the action to be taken against them.
A team of DGCA officials conducted surprise surveillance of SpiceJet at its Gurugram office on Wednesday and checked its operational records. Based on findings of this, show cause notices have been issued for a number of alleged lapses to the low cost airline’s heads of training, operations, flight safety and the overall accountable manager.
The alleged violations say sources, include: “lack of implementation of safety management system in the organisation… (and that) timely action on part of the organisation could have arrested the adverse trends and helped in prevention of the recent occurrences.”
The notices are learnt to have pointed that SpiceJet “failed to analyse these trends and did not take any remedial action”; that the crew involved in the “exceedances were not made available for corrective training”; “majority of cases requiring correction action/training, the involved crew has been given counselling (sometimes even one telephone)” and “(official incharge) did not ensure implementation of SMS (safety management system) in flight crew training department”.
A SpiceJet spokesman said: “We are in receipt of the show cause notices issued by the DGCA. The concerned officials will submit their replies within the timeframe given by the regulator. Safety is the core value of our operations and is a shared objective of both the DGCA and SpiceJet. We will take all possible steps that may be required to further strengthen our safety mechanism.”
04/07/19 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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A team of DGCA officials conducted surprise surveillance of SpiceJet at its Gurugram office on Wednesday and checked its operational records. Based on findings of this, show cause notices have been issued for a number of alleged lapses to the low cost airline’s heads of training, operations, flight safety and the overall accountable manager.
The alleged violations say sources, include: “lack of implementation of safety management system in the organisation… (and that) timely action on part of the organisation could have arrested the adverse trends and helped in prevention of the recent occurrences.”
The notices are learnt to have pointed that SpiceJet “failed to analyse these trends and did not take any remedial action”; that the crew involved in the “exceedances were not made available for corrective training”; “majority of cases requiring correction action/training, the involved crew has been given counselling (sometimes even one telephone)” and “(official incharge) did not ensure implementation of SMS (safety management system) in flight crew training department”.
A SpiceJet spokesman said: “We are in receipt of the show cause notices issued by the DGCA. The concerned officials will submit their replies within the timeframe given by the regulator. Safety is the core value of our operations and is a shared objective of both the DGCA and SpiceJet. We will take all possible steps that may be required to further strengthen our safety mechanism.”
04/07/19 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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