Hero Paraglider Dies Saving Tourist’s Life After Parachute Cord Snaps Mid-Air

A tragic accident in West Bengal would have led to the death of an adventurous tourist if not for the heroic and timely actions of 22-year-old pilot Purushottam Timsina.

Gaurav Chaudhary from Patna was visiting Kalimpong with his friends. On 24 November 2018, he enrolled for a paragliding session. What should have been a wonderful memory turned into a tragedy.

When the flight took off from Deolo Tourist Lodge, initially, everything seemed just fine. Purushottam and Gaurav were enjoying the peaceful flight when something went terribly wrong.

Just seconds after the flight took off, a cord snapped, sending the paragliders into a wild spiral.

Gaurav was capturing the flight in a video, and you can see how Purushottam instinctively held on to Gaurav right when the cord snapped. The parachute was spinning downward uncontrollably, and in such a situation, anyone would have lost their practical senses.

But not the pilot.

He held on to Gaurav tightly even as the duo hit the ground hard.

He even did his best in controlling the parachute with the other cord.

The fall could have gone either way, and none could have presumed how it would have ended.

But Purushottam’s presence of mind shows him holding on to the tourist.

It is presumed that this saved Gaurav’s life.

Purushottam succumbed to his injuries after the disastrous fall, while Gaurav managed to escape with a broken leg.
30/11/18 Tanvi Patel/Better India

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Stockholm airport wingtip hit: Air India grounds both pilots, orders probe

New Delhi: Air India has grounded the pilots of its Wednesday’s Delhi-Sweden flight after the Dreamliner’s wingtip struck a building at Stockholm's Arlanda airport on arrival while taxiing to the gate there.
The aircraft had 179 passengers and there were no injuries. However, the Boeing 787 is grounded there for checks and repairs.
“We have derostered (taken off flying duties) both the pilots. Further investigation is on,” said a senior AI official. The Stockholm police, in a statement, said the 179 passengers "could disembark from the plane on a mobile staircase and thereafter enter the terminal.”
The incident had happened at 5.45 pm (GMT) when the plane was about 50 metres from the airport’s terminal 5.
29/11/18 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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Air India plane hits building at Stockholm airport, no injuries reported

New Delhi: An Air India aircraft, carrying 179 passengers, had a close shave after it hit a building at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport with its wingtip as it was taxing on Wednesday, AFP reported. No injuries were reported.
“The 179 passengers could disembark from the plane on a mobile staircase and thereafter enter the terminal,” AFP quoted a police statement. The cause of the accident was not immediately known, police said. The accident occurred about 50 meters from Terminal 5, the main terminal for international flights.
Pictures from the scene showed the Boeing aircraft, which originated from New Delhi, parked on the runway with the tip of its left wing stuck in the side of a building. Fire trucks have been rushed to the spot.
29/11/18 Indian Express

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Indonesian investigators say doomed Lion Air jet 'airworthy'

Jakarta: Investigators of the October 28 crash of a Lion Air flight into the Java Sea say the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft was deemed airworthy when it made its final takeoff from Jakarta.

The officials summoned reporters Thursday to clarify comments made at a news conference the day before, where some media reported they had said the plane was not airworthy when it took off.

The National Transportation Safety Commission investigators were reporting on data from the aircraft's black boxes. They say the cockpit voice recorder, which is still missing and being searched for, is needed to understand what exactly caused the jet to plunge in the Java Sea just 11 minutes after takeoff.

"The NTSC and the Head of Aviation Communication never stated that Lion Air, Boeing 737-8 MAX aircraft registered PK-LQP, was not airworthy," said investigator Nurcahyo Utomo.

He said that based on maintenance records, flight engineers had made repairs and run tests.
29/11/18 AP/Times of India

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'Lion Air jet that crashed killing 189 was not airworthy’

Jakarta: A Lion Air jet that crashed into the sea off Indonesia last month was not in an airworthy condition on its second-to-last flight, when pilots experienced similar problems to those on its doomed last journey, investigators said on Wednesday. Contact with the Boeing 737 MAX jet was lost 13 minutes after it took off on October 29 from Jakarta heading north to the tin-mining town of Pangkal Pinang. Indian carriers Jet Airways and SpiceJet too use Boeing 737 MAX.

In a preliminary report, Indonesia’s transport safety committee (KNKT) focused on the airline’s maintenance practices and pilot training and a Boeing anti-stall system but did not give a cause for the crash that killed all 189 people on board.

The report unveiled fresh details of efforts by pilots to steady the jet as they reported a “flight control problem”, including the captain’s last words to air traffic control asking to be cleared to “five thou” or 5,000 feet.

Information retrieved from the flight data recorder showed the “stick shaker” was vibrating the captain’s controls, warning of a stall throughout most of the flight. The captain was using his controls to bring the plane’s nose up, but an automated anti-stall system was pushing it down.

Pilots flying the same plane a day earlier had experienced a similar problem, en route from Bali to Jakarta, until they used switches to shut off the system and used manual controls to fly and stabilise the plane, KNKT said. “The flight from Denpasar to Jakarta experienced stick shaker activation during the takeoff rotation and remained active throughout the flight,” the committee said. “This condition is considered as un-airworthy condition and the flight should have been discontinued.”
Pilots of that flight reported problems to Lion Air’s maintenance team, which checked the jet and cleared it for takeoff the next morning. Former Boeing flight control engineer Peter Lemme said stick shaker activation was “very distracting and unnerving”. KNKT investigator Nurcahyo Utomo said the agency had not determined if the anti-stall system, which was not explained to pilots in manuals, was a contributing factor. In a statement, Boeing, which has said procedures for preventing an antistall system activating by accident were already in place, said pilots of the penultimate flight had used that drill but noted the report did not say if pilots of the doomed flight did so.
29/11/18 Reuters/Times of India

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IAF's Kiran aircraft crash-lands in Telangana, trainee pilot escapes with injuries

Hyderabad: A trainer aircraft of the Indian Air Force Station in Hakimpet, Hyderabad crashed on the agricultural fields near Yadagirigutta Wednesday. The trainee pilot, who ejected before the crash, has suffered minor injuries.

The incident took place about 50 km away from the city. It was only a few days ago on November 21 that a trainer aircraft belonging to Rajiv Gandhi Aviation Academy crash-landed at Mokila village of Shankerpally in Ranga Reddy district, around 40 km away from Hyderabad.

According to information available, a Kiran Mk-II trainer aircraft that took off from Hakimpet Air Force Station was on a routine training mission. The pilot identified as Yogesh of Uttar Pradesh ejected to safety. A Court of Inquiry will investigate the cause of the accident, said officials.

A suspected technical glitch is said to have led to the crash. Experts from the academy are on the way to examine the mishap.

Earlier in September 2017, an Indian Air Force(IAF) trainer aircraft that was on a routine flight crashed in the agriculture fields in Medchal district, about 30 km from Hyderabad, before bursting into flames. The trainee pilot had ejected to safety.
28/11/18 New Indian Express

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Emergency landing at city airport

Amritsar: The Sri Guru Ramdas Jee International Airport witnessed an emergency landing of a SpiceJet flight from Bangkok as it had a tyre burst before the landing process at around 2 pm.
Airport officials said they received information at 2.09 pm that SpiceJet flight SG-90/281, which was scheduled to arrive in Amritsar from Bangkok at 2.10 pm, was declared full emergency by pilot. All the precautionary measures were taken at the airport. The flight landed safely at about 3.10 pm.
After landing, the tyre of the aircraft was replaced by airline engineers and then the aircraft was brought to the parking stand.
27/11/18 Tribune

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Air India, Jet Airways opposes aviation regulator's duty & rest hours norms

Mumbai: The domestic pilot bodies of Air India and Jet Airways have opposed the aviation regulator's draft duty and rest hours norms for the flight crew, terming them as "downright dangerous" and "regressive". While national carrier Air India has two pilots unions -- the India Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) and Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) -- Jet Airways domestic pilots are represented through the National Aviator's Guild (NAG). Earlier this month, aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) proposed a new set of flight and duty time limitation (FDTL) rules.

The FDTL rules for pilots were framed in 2011 and some clarifications sought by the operators at that time were attached to the Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR) in 2012. "In the interest of flight safety and most importantly public safety, most of the changes that are being proposed in this draft is not only unacceptable but downright dangerous and appear to reflect a dubious commercial motive," the three unions said in a signed communication to the DGCA. "These concepts will only result in quick commercial gains for the airlines and their management, at the cost of public safety," the unions said in the letter.

The communication comes in the backdrop of the regulator seeking feedback on its proposed norms from all stakeholders, including airlines, pilots and cabin crew members, prior to giving them a final shape. The unions have also accused the DGCA of ignoring their feedback during their pre-draft meetings. "Instead of enhancing the levels of safety in the proposed FDTL regulations, regressive new concepts have been introduced that make the DGCA appear as a facilitator of exploitative practices that will only result in quick commercial gains for the airline(s) and their management, at the cost of public safety," they alleged in the letter.

The illegal "variations" to the existing FDTL norms (which had been introduced at the behest of various airlines but expunged by the Delhi High Court) have now been incorporated directly into the draft rules itself, thereby bypassing the spirit of the court order, they alleged. According to IPG general secretary K Jayakumar, the regulator did not require to alter the existing norms; instead they should have made the clarifications issued in 2012 as part of the norms. "In the existing norms, weekly off can be combined with post-flight rest, but in the draft regulations they have reduced rest by combining weekly off with post-flight rest if its concurrently due," Jayakumar said. This would be detrimental, particularly for the pilots operating ultra long haul (ULR) flights, considering that a four days rest is required after each ULR flight.
27/11/18 Devdiscourse

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Lion Air’s deadly flight was a 13-minute struggle between man and machine

Indonesian investigators released a preliminary crash report on November 28 that described a battle between the pilots of Lion Air flight JT610 and an automated anti-stall system on the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft that continually forced the plane downward in reaction to incorrect flight data. Less than 15 minutes after the flight took off from Jakarta on Oct. 29, the plane crashed in the Java Sea, killing all 189 people on board.
The anti-stall system is known as the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), and is a new addition on the 737 Max 8 and 9 models that can pitch the plane’s nose down without pilot input when sensor data indicates the possibility of a stall.

The 78-page report from Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee, known by the acronym KNKT, described in detail problems experienced with the plane in flights before its crash, and shared information from the flight’s data recorder—the cockpit voice recorder hasn’t been recovered—without drawing conclusions. “When it comes to faulting, I don’t know, our job isn’t to find faults,” Nurcahyo Utomo, who heads KNKT’s aviation-accident subcommittee, said at a press conference (paywall).

In addition to Indonesian investigators, the crash probe involved the US National Transportation Safety Board and investigators from Australia and Singapore.

The report made few safety recommendations other than calling on Lion Air to improve its safety culture. It said that in the penultimate flight, pilots continued flying even though the stick shaker—which generates a noisy warning before a stall—continued to vibrate, instead of opting to land at the nearest airport.

On the final flight, according to the Satcom Guru website run by Peter Lemme, a former Boeing engineer, the flight data recorder information for the JT610 showed “there are 26 occurrences of MCAS trim down, pilot trim up”—with trim referring to the efforts to redirect the plane.

A chart included in the report shows a series of orange lines that designate the automated system’s efforts, matched by a series of blue ones in the opposite direction, indicating the pilots’ efforts.
The Oct. 29 crash was the first such incident with the 737 Max variant, which Lion Air was the first carrier to begin using in 2017. This particular aircraft had only been put into operation in August—the flight recorder included 69 hours of operation for 19 flights, including the final one.

According to the crash report, on that flight the shaker indicating an impending stall activated at about 400 feet. The flight system carried out three maneuvers to adjust the nose downward, but the commanding pilot initiated steps to override it a little over eight minutes into the flight. The flight landed safely in Jakarta about an hour and a half after takeoff.

It’s not clear why pilots of the Oct. 29 flight weren’t able to override the system or what procedures they tried to use. According to today’s report, the 31-year-old Indian commanding pilot of JT610 had more than 6,000 hours of flying experience, while the second-in-command, a 41-year-old Indonesian national, had over 5,000 hours of flying experience.

The crash has turned attention to Lion Air’s safety record and lapses, including a plane’s wing clipping an electricity pole in the days after the crash.

Boeing may be working with the FAA on a software update for the system. It’s also addressing pilot questions about how the system is designed, said captain Tajer, noting that many are now keen to know more about the software. He says pilots are trying to understand why the system appears to be set up to engage based on a single data source. They’re also asking why, after engaging once automatically, the system keeps triggering repeatedly without in some way seeking confirmation of a stall, perhaps via another sensor or pilot input.
28/11/18 Tripti Lahiri/Quartz

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Faulty engines cast shadow on India‘s booming aviation market

New Delhi: On Saturday, a flight from Bengaluru to Pune — with 169 passengers aboard — suffered from a mid-air engine failure and was forced to return back for emergency landing + .

This is hardly the first such case in India.

The in India is growing rapidly. The number of passenger planes in India — the fastest growing market — is expected to nearly double from 600 to 1,100 in ten years. But the engine driving this growth has a major issue.

A large part of India‘s new aircraft orders (from Boeing and Airbus) constitute the narrow-body, twin-engine, single-aisle aircraft preferred by India‘s low-cost airlines. Last year India ordered more such planes than China.

This is also a segment that is driving aerospace sector giant Airbus‘s growth. Its A320 neos dominate the Indian market, serving and GoAir, among others. More than half of A320 neos worldwide run on engines provided by a single company – Pratt & Whitney (P&W).
27/11/18 Clayton Caller

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India's overall aviation safety score to improve post UN body audit

New Delhi: India’s ranking in the overall aviation safety score given by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is set to improve significantly.

Following an audit last year, the United Nation’s aviation arm had lowered India’s “effective implementation” (EI) from 65.82% to 57.44% against world average of 62% mainly on the issue of air traffic controllers’ (ATCO) licensing. An ICAO team again audited the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) from November 12-21 to see if the shortcomings had been addressed to make flying safer, and before leaving, told the Indian authorities that the country’s EI score could rise to 74%.

The overall EI figure is arrived at as an aggregate of individual scores in eight fields like legislation, organisation, personnel licensing and airworthiness of aircraft. This score gives an overall picture of how a country is complying with global aviation safety practices under different heads.

Asked how the ICAO audit went, DGCA chief BS Bhullar said: “ICAO team have concluded their validation process of DGCA oversight system in areas of legislation, organisation, air navigation services, aerodromes and accident investigation last Wednesday (Nov 21). As per their protocol, they only share verbally the provisional outcome at the end of the exercise. Provisional result is encouraging and likely to improve our EI by about 17%. This may further go up significantly once ATCO licensing is completed by DGCA as per mandate of Ministry. These are provisional results which need to be ratified by ICAO HQ team. This process takes about three months.”
25/11/18 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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Jet Airways passenger talks about bombs over phone, detained at Kolkata airport

Kolkata: A passenger was detained and forced to de-board a Jet Airways Kolkata-Mumbai flight on Monday after fellow passengers allegedly heard him talking about "bombs" on a video chat, an airport official said.
Yogvedanta Poddar, in his 20s, was forced to get off the plane, which was preparing for take-off, he said.
Co-passengers overheard his conversation and alerted a flight attendant.
The crew immediately informed the pilot about a possible threat, the official said.
"The pilot then reported the matter to the ATC, following which the man was taken off the Jet Airways flight by the CISF, which is in charge of security at the airport," he said.
Poddar has been handed over to the airport police station for questioning, he added.
According to police sources, the man said during interrogation that he was going to Mumbai for a job interview.
The resident of Salt Lake, adjoining the city, was being interrogated at the NSCBI airport police station to ascertain his motives, officials said.
26/11/18 New Indian Express

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Found Closure Now, Says Mother of Indian Pilot Killed in Indonesian Plane Crash

New Delhi: The mother of Indian pilot Bhavye Suneja who captained the ill-fated Indonesian plane that crashed into the sea on October 29 said they have found "closure" after his body was identified by the Indonesian authorities.

The Lion Air flight, with 188 passengers and crew on board, crashed into the sea off Indonesia's island of Java, minutes after taking off from Jakarta Soekarno Hatta International Airport.
Sangeeta Suneja, who is an Air India employee, said her son's colleagues only had good things to speak about him and his skills.
"We have found our closure now. Earlier, we were praying and hoping for a miracle when his body was not found. But now, at least we know what happened to him. Sixty-nine people are still missing," she said.
Sangeeta Suneja said time is a healer and the family will try and come to terms with Bhavye's loss once they return to India.
Sangeeta Suneja said time is a healer and the family will try and come to terms with Bhavye's loss once they return to India.
25/11/18 PTI/News18.com

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LionAirCrash: Body of Indian pilot who captained the flight identified

Indonesian authorities have identified the body of Bhavye Suneja, the Indian pilot who captained the ill-fated Lion Air flight that crashed into the sea on October 29, killing all 188 people who were on board.

Captain Suneja's remains will be handed over to his family at the Indian Embassy in Jakarta later today, said External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.
Suneja, a resident of New Delhi's Mayur Vihar, was the captain of the ill-fated Lion Air flight JT-610.

Suneja, and his co-pilot, who were in charge of flight JT-610, collectively had over 11,000 hours of flying time, and were on a routine flight between the Indonesian cities of Jakarta and Pangkal Pinang when misfortune struck.
Suneja married in 2016 and was settled in Jakarta.

Suneja passed out of Mayur Vihar's Ahlcon Public School in 2005, and got his pilot license from Bel Air International in 2009.

In 2010, he joined Emirates as a trainee pilot and remained with the airlines for four months before leaving to join low-cost Indonesian carrier Lion Air in 2011.

Since then, Suneja has flown extensively, and had an incident-free, accident-free flying record.
25/11/18 Shiladitya Ray/NewsBytes

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Aeronautical Study Of Any Structure To Assess Risk To Aviation Safety Doesn’t Call For Prior Demolition: Delhi HC

A request for aeronautical study of a structure to determine if it would adversely affect the operation of aeroplanes has to be considered on a case-to-case basis and there is no rule or policy which says that aeronautical study cannot be undertaken unless the excess height of the structure as against the permissible limit is demolished, the Delhi High Court has held.
Justice Vibhu Bakhru said so while directing the appellate committee of the Ministry of Civil Aviation to reconsider the request of a Mumbai-based real estate company, KGA Investments, to conduct an aeronautical study in respect of its building at Jogeshwari Vikhroli Link Road, Powai, 4 km from the aerodrome.
The company had moved court after the Appellate Committee for Height Clearance, Ministry of Civil Aviation, on July 31, 2018, rejected its request for conducting an aeronautical study in respect of its building whose height exceeded the maximum permissible top elevation by 3.52 m and further directed initiation of action as per the Aircraft (Demolition of Obstruction Caused by Buildings and Trees etc.) Rules, 1994.
The appellate authority was of the view that the aeronautical study cannot be conducted without the structure in excess of the permissible height being demolished.
23/11/18 Akanksha Jain/Live Law

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IndiGo plane tilts mid-air due to yawing, DGCA starts probe

Passengers of an IndiGo flight from Hyderabad to Port Blair experienced anxious moments on Tuesday as the A320 neo aircraft tilted mid-air, according to a senior regulatory official.

Aviation regulator DGCA has started a probe into the incident, which is the latest in a series of issues involving IndiGo's fleet of A320 neo planes powered with Pratt & Whitney engines.

After it tilted to one side mid-air, the pilot managed to balance the aircraft, a senior DGCA official told PTI.

An IndiGo spokesperson said the pilot observed a minor engine sensor issue that did not warrant any automated caution and that the plane made a normal landing at Port Blair.

The number of passengers on board could not be ascertained. A320 neo plane has more than 180 seats.

The A320 neo aircraft suffered "yawing" and the regulator might also ask for the flight's DFDR (Digital Flight Data Recorder) to assess the angle of tilt and fix responsibility for the incident, the official said.

Generally, yaw motion is side-to-side movement of an aircraft's nose and can result in asymmetrical lift on the wings.
"The pilot's report says the aircraft yawed. Now, the angle or the degree of the yaw is to be determined and that would reveal the seriousness of the matter. We have already started our investigation," the official noted.

Further, the official said that after gathering the requisite data, the DGCA will be able to find out whether the incident happened due to lapses at the end of engineers or pilots.

22/11/18 PTI/India Today

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‘Spend the Minimum’: After Crash, Lion Air’s Safety Record Is Back in Spotlight

The notorious safety record of Lion Air, Indonesia’s largest carrier and one of the world’s fastest-growing airlines, is back in the spotlight after the crash of Flight 610, which hurtled nose-first into Indonesian waters with 189 people on board just minutes after takeoff on Oct. 29.
Even as the mystery of Flight 610 is still being pieced together, one thing is clear, investigators and aviation experts say: Few airlines were less prepared to deal with crisis than Lion Air.
Interviews with dozens of Lion Air’s management personnel and flight and ground crew members, as well as Indonesian investigators and airline analysts, paint a picture of a carrier so obsessed with growth that it has failed to build a proper safety culture.

As Lion Air Group, which owns several carriers including Lion Air, expands aggressively both at home and abroad, new questions are being raised about the company’s stunning rise. Lion ranks as one of Indonesia’s highest-profile companies, but it remains shadowed by accounts of opacity and incompetence from former employees and industry regulators.

Even as Lion Air Group signed the two biggest aircraft deals in aviation history in recent years, its flagship carrier has suffered at least 15 major safety lapses, including a crash that killed 25 people, and hundreds more episodes that have escaped the public eye, aviation experts said.

Government safety investigators say that the company’s political ties have allowed it to circumvent their recommendations, as in the episode in Makassar, and to play down instances that would cause alarm elsewhere.

Lion Air became adept at passing malfunctioning equipment from plane to plane rather than fixing problems, former employees said.

Frank Caron, who was brought in as Lion Air’s safety manager from 2009 to 2011 on orders from insurance firms, said that the carrier had an average of one major engineering issue every three days, even though most of its fleet was new.
22/11/18 Hannah Beech and Muktita Suhartono/New York Times

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Jet Airways air pressure drop incident: Passenger suffers permanent hearing loss; victims plan to drag airline to court

New Delhi: In the cabin pressure drop incident involving the Jaipur-bound Jet Airways flight from Mumbai on September 20, a passenger, Mukesh Sharma, has suffered permanent hearing loss. Passengers on board the Jet Airways flight bled from their nose and ears after the pilots forgot to switch on a crucial button that would turn on the air conditioning within the aircraft and maintain the cabin pressure.

Sharma was among the passengers who suffered bleeding during the incident. This month, during a check-up at a Jaipur hospital, he came to know he has suffered permanent hearing damage.

"The reports revealed that I have suffered a permanent hearing loss. There were a number of soft sounds I wasn't able to detect and unless a person is standing face-to-face with me and speaking, I am not able to listen to the words. While speaking on phone, I use my left ear as the right one is most affected," Sharma told the Hindustan Times.

Jet Airways flight 9W-697 had landed back in Mumbai within 30 minutes of taking off from the airport's Terminal 2 after 30 out of the 166 passengers on board started bleeding and complained of headaches. The pilots had not turned on the "bleed air" button upon achieving an altitude of more than 10,000 feet that would release air from the engine into the cabin meant for air conditioning. As a result of this lapse, the cabin pressure could not be maintained and oxygen masks were deployed.

As per the report, Sharma along with another person, Ankul Kala who was also travelling on the same flight, had suffered from barotrauma -- an injury that is caused by increased air or water pressure, such as during airplane flights or scuba diving. They both are undergoing treatment at Sawai Man Singh Hospital.
22/11/18 Business Today

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European Aviation Safety Agency decertifies GMR’s MRO in Hyderabad

New Delhi: GMR Aero Technic Ltd, the Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facility based at Hyderabad, has lost its European certification to carry out MRO work on aircraft that fly with European certification.

This follows the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) suspending its certification on November 12 this year.

In effect, this means the facility will be unable to do MRO checks on foreign carriers which insist on EASA certification.

Confirming the development, a spokesman of GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd told BusinessLine: “As part of a recent routine compliance audit, EASA had raised certain observations leading to a temporary suspension of approval. We are working expeditiously to address the same to the satisfaction of the EASA authorities, post which we expect the certification to be reinstated.”

The spokesperson added that as a business imperative, GMR Aero Technic (GAT) holds approval and certification from a number of international civil aviation authorities including the Directorate General of Civil Aviation here and the Federal Aviation Authority of the United States. These approvals enable GAT to render services to aircraft registered under their respective regulatory jurisdictions.

GMR AERO Technic Ltd is a 100 per cent subsidiary of GMR Aerospace Engineering Ltd which runs the MRO business.

The EASA order states that it, “Partially suspended – temporary removal in part of the approval. The approval is held in abeyance in whole or in part until compliance is re-establis
hed. No certify issue or re-issue is required.”
22/11/18 Ashwini Phadnis/Business Line

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Trainer aircraft crashes in Telangana, pilot escapes unhurt

A trainer aircraft crashed in the fields of Shankarpalli block of Telangana's Rangareddy district.
The incident took place on Wednesday morning.

It is reported that a trainee plane of the Rajiv Gandhi Aviation Academy crashed in the Shankarapalli fields. The 25-year-old pilot, Bhaskar Bhushan, escaped unhurt.

The crash took place due to a technical glitch.

Trainee aircraft crashes in Telangana, pilot escapes unhurt.
21/11/18 Ashish Pandey/India Today

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