DGCA SURVEILLANCE OF AIRPORTS FINDS MULTIPLE VIOLATIONS IN ECOSYSTEM

The regulator has initiated a focused assessment of the ecosystem to strengthen safety measures

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Aviation watchdog DGCA has detected multiple violations related to airlines, airports, aircraft maintenance works and repeated defects in multiple cases during its surveillance at major airports, an exercise carried out in less than two weeks after the Air India plane crash.

Without disclosing names of the airlines, airports and other entities in relation to the defects, the regulator on Tuesday said surveillance covered multiple critical areas such as flight operations, airworthiness, ramp safety, Air Traffic Control (ATC), communication, navigation and surveillance (CNS) systems, and pre-flight medical evaluations.

From a faded centre line marking of a runway at an airport to non-updation of obstruction limitation data for three years to a scheduled carrier's domestic flight being held up due to worn tyres, the watchdog came across multiple defects in the aviation ecosystem.