Category: Civil Aviation

A passenger accidentally opened the emergency exit of an IndiGo plane after boarding at Chennai airport last month and the aircraft, which was on the ground, was subject to mandatory engineering checks before it flew to Tiruchirapalli. A senior official at aviation regulator DGCA on Tuesday said the event was duly reported and that no […]

The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday announced a compensation of Rs 5 lakh each for the families of four residents of Ghazipur who died in a plane crash in Nepal. The government also said that the expenses to bring their mortal remains to Ghazipur will be borne by the state government. Four of the five […]

Nepalese authorities on Tuesday started handing over to family members the bodies of those killed after Yeti Airlines’ aircraft with 72 people, including five Indians, crashed in a river gorge in the resort city of Pokhara, as the death toll rose to 70. Two more persons are still missing and the search operation is continuing, […]

Air India is set to order around 500 planes as an airline industry recovery takes hold following the pandemic, one of the world’s leading aircraft lessors said on Monday. “As a result of this recovery, there is now more momentum for large orders from airlines who have sort of sat back and watched the movie, […]

A video clip, reportedly live-streamed by one of the five Indians on board the Yeti Airlines Kathmandu-Pokhara flight which crashed on Sunday, purportedly shows the last moments before the plane went down. Four of the five Indians — Abhishek Kushwaha (25), Vishal Sharma (25), Anil Kumar Rajbhar (25) and Sonu Jaiswal (30) — were friends, […]

Anju Khatiwada, the co-pilot of the crashed Yeti Airlines’ aircraft, joined Nepal’s aviation sector after the death of her husband who was killed while flying a small passenger plane of the same domestic airline in 2006. Nearly 16 years later, the 9N-ANC ATR-72 aircraft — co-piloted by Anju — crashed on the bank of the […]

A spokesman for Nepal’s Civil Aviation Authority says a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder have been retrieved from the site of the crash of a passenger plane that went down on approach to a newly opened airport in the tourist town of Pokhara. Jagannath Niraula said the boxes were found on Monday, […]

Searchers on Monday found both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from a passenger flight that crashed on Sunday, killing at least 68 people in Nepal’s deadliest plane crash in 30 years, officials said. The data on the recorders may help investigators determine what caused the ATR 72 aircraft, carrying 72 people, to […]

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has pointed out delays in the closure of a project which was aimed at developing a “high-grade” security solution for protecting video, voice and fax communication between VVIP aircraft and the designated ground stations. The project — Meghdoot — was developed by the Centre for Artificial Intelligence […]

Five years in the works, the underpass that connects HAL Old Airport Road and Whitefield in Bengaluru is likely to be opened to the public by the end of January. Built at a cost of Rs 19.5 crore, the 2.9m underpass on one of the major roads of the Karnataka capital has missed several deadlines. […]

A 24-year-old trainee ticketing agent of British Airways was arrested by the Delhi Police for allegedly making a hoax bomb call to the SpiceJet call centre when its Pune-bound flight was about to depart from the capital Thursday. Police said a few minutes before a Delhi-Pune SpiceJet flight was about to depart from IGI Airport […]

The Delhi Police arrested eight staffers from the IGI Airport allegedly with stolen jewellery worth Rs 12 lakh, watches, Apple iPhones and cash. Police said the men, who work as loaders, were allegedly running a “theft racket” for months. Several theft incidents were reported last year, and a vigilance team was set up. An accused […]