Via PTI
NEW DELHI: Aviation watchdog DGCA’s leader Arun Kumar on Sunday mentioned technical snags confronted by means of home carriers in fresh weeks didn’t have the possible to reason havoc and that even overseas airways that got here to India reported 15 technical snags within the ultimate 16 days.
The rustic’s civil aviation area is “completely protected” and the entire protocols laid down by means of the Global Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) are adopted, he mentioned.
Towards the backdrop of a spate of technical snags suffered by means of Indian airways in fresh weeks and DGCA curbing operations of SpiceJet, Kumar stressed out that there is not any wish to panic as not one of the occasions which were reported/mentioned had the possible to reason havoc.
“The entire snags skilled are regimen and occur with all airways and all forms of fleet. Within the ultimate 16 days, even for the overseas operators who come to India, we have now noticed 15 technical snags, which were attended and rectified,” Kumar advised PTI in an interview.
Explicit information about snags that have been confronted by means of the in a foreign country carriers weren’t disclosed.
In line with Kumar, the snags confronted by means of the overseas operators have been very similar to that encountered by means of the Indian carriers.
Lately, greater than a dozen cases of Indian carriers going through technical snags have grow to be public, particularly with regards to SpiceJet, and the Directorate Normal of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is conserving an in depth watch at the tendencies.
“What maximum of them (fresh incidents of technical snags) required was once troubleshooting, substitute of a few part say windshield because of outer layer crack, faulty valve, high-pressure transfer, touchdown tools uplock, hydraulic accumulator or an engine,” Kumar mentioned.
The regulator has began a two-month-long particular audit of airways to handle conceivable problems and has curtailed the operations of SpiceJet, amongst different measures, amid a spurt in cases of technical snags.
After being critically hit by means of the coronavirus pandemic, the home civil aviation sector is at the restoration trail and on moderate, there are greater than 6,000 plane actions within the Indian airspace day by day.
If overflying planes also are taken into consideration, the entire can be over 7,000 actions.
Airplane actions come with landings in addition to departures.
Within the three-month duration from April 1 to June 30 this yr, a complete of 150 incidents came about to the plane operated by means of scheduled airways because of part and gadget malfunction, in line with the civil aviation ministry.
Right through the duration from Might 2 to July 13, DGCA undertook a unique power of 353 spot tests.
Emphasising that the aviation sector is “process-driven”, Kumar mentioned, “there are masses of hundreds of parts in an plane and if one or two parts have problems, it does now not all the time imply that there are excessive dangers or the opportunity of deadly incidents”.
He additionally famous that it’s going to be naive to think that an plane, which flies until it’s airworthy, does 40-50 thousand hours of flying, won’t have a technical snag.
On July 27, DGCA directed SpiceJet to perform most effective 50 in line with cent of its flights for 8 weeks and made up our minds to stay the airline underneath enhanced surveillance within the wake of a spate of technical snags suffered by means of the provider’s planes.
The similar day, SpiceJet issued a remark announcing that because of the present lean shuttle season, the airline like others had already rescheduled its flight operations and that there will probably be completely no have an effect on on its flight operations.
Responding to reservations expressed in positive quarters that DGCA motion in opposition to SpiceJet was once now not robust sufficient, Kumar mentioned, “I’m really not right here to close down airways.
My function is to take measures to make sure protected and environment friendly flying”.
The DGCA leader additionally discussed that the fleet of Indian carriers is most commonly younger in comparison to the ones of many different nations.
“The point of interest is all the time on protection and to make sure that any scenario isn’t allowed to aggravate”.
The security oversight technique of DGCA contains surveillance, spot take a look at and regulatory audits embodied in the once a year surveillance programme.
On July 28, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia advised the Lok Sabha {that a} general of 478 technical snags have been reported within the ultimate three hundred and sixty five days — from July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2022.
NEW DELHI: Aviation watchdog DGCA’s leader Arun Kumar on Sunday mentioned technical snags confronted by means of home carriers in fresh weeks didn’t have the possible to reason havoc and that even overseas airways that got here to India reported 15 technical snags within the ultimate 16 days.
The rustic’s civil aviation area is “completely protected” and the entire protocols laid down by means of the Global Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) are adopted, he mentioned.
Towards the backdrop of a spate of technical snags suffered by means of Indian airways in fresh weeks and DGCA curbing operations of SpiceJet, Kumar stressed out that there is not any wish to panic as not one of the occasions which were reported/mentioned had the possible to reason havoc.
“The entire snags skilled are regimen and occur with all airways and all forms of fleet. Within the ultimate 16 days, even for the overseas operators who come to India, we have now noticed 15 technical snags, which were attended and rectified,” Kumar advised PTI in an interview.
Explicit information about snags that have been confronted by means of the in a foreign country carriers weren’t disclosed.
In line with Kumar, the snags confronted by means of the overseas operators have been very similar to that encountered by means of the Indian carriers.
Lately, greater than a dozen cases of Indian carriers going through technical snags have grow to be public, particularly with regards to SpiceJet, and the Directorate Normal of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is conserving an in depth watch at the tendencies.
“What maximum of them (fresh incidents of technical snags) required was once troubleshooting, substitute of a few part say windshield because of outer layer crack, faulty valve, high-pressure transfer, touchdown tools uplock, hydraulic accumulator or an engine,” Kumar mentioned.
The regulator has began a two-month-long particular audit of airways to handle conceivable problems and has curtailed the operations of SpiceJet, amongst different measures, amid a spurt in cases of technical snags.
After being critically hit by means of the coronavirus pandemic, the home civil aviation sector is at the restoration trail and on moderate, there are greater than 6,000 plane actions within the Indian airspace day by day.
If overflying planes also are taken into consideration, the entire can be over 7,000 actions.
Airplane actions come with landings in addition to departures.
Within the three-month duration from April 1 to June 30 this yr, a complete of 150 incidents came about to the plane operated by means of scheduled airways because of part and gadget malfunction, in line with the civil aviation ministry.
Right through the duration from Might 2 to July 13, DGCA undertook a unique power of 353 spot tests.
Emphasising that the aviation sector is “process-driven”, Kumar mentioned, “there are masses of hundreds of parts in an plane and if one or two parts have problems, it does now not all the time imply that there are excessive dangers or the opportunity of deadly incidents”.
He additionally famous that it’s going to be naive to think that an plane, which flies until it’s airworthy, does 40-50 thousand hours of flying, won’t have a technical snag.
On July 27, DGCA directed SpiceJet to perform most effective 50 in line with cent of its flights for 8 weeks and made up our minds to stay the airline underneath enhanced surveillance within the wake of a spate of technical snags suffered by means of the provider’s planes.
The similar day, SpiceJet issued a remark announcing that because of the present lean shuttle season, the airline like others had already rescheduled its flight operations and that there will probably be completely no have an effect on on its flight operations.
Responding to reservations expressed in positive quarters that DGCA motion in opposition to SpiceJet was once now not robust sufficient, Kumar mentioned, “I’m really not right here to close down airways.
My function is to take measures to make sure protected and environment friendly flying”.
The DGCA leader additionally discussed that the fleet of Indian carriers is most commonly younger in comparison to the ones of many different nations.
“The point of interest is all the time on protection and to make sure that any scenario isn’t allowed to aggravate”.
The security oversight technique of DGCA contains surveillance, spot take a look at and regulatory audits embodied in the once a year surveillance programme.
On July 28, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia advised the Lok Sabha {that a} general of 478 technical snags have been reported within the ultimate three hundred and sixty five days — from July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2022.
