Category: Civil Aviation

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is taking at least a couple of months to issue licences to trained pilots as the regulator is grappling with the shortage of staff at key positions, according to sources. After training, individuals need to obtain a Commercial Pilot Licence (CPL) to be eligible to fly commercial flights. […]

The Maryada Purushottam Shriram International airport in Ayodhya is expected to be completed by October, ahead of the inauguration of the Ram temple. The temple is likely to be inaugurated in January of next year, while commercial flights are expected to commence in November or early December 2023 from Ayodhya. The new airport, with a […]

A military drone crashed during a test flight in northern Iran on Monday, wounding two people and damaging buildings, state media reported. Debris fell in different parts of the northern city of Gorgon, according to the official IRNA news agency. The semiofficial Tasnim news agency released a video showing white smoke rising from different areas […]

A small passenger plane crashed in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest Saturday, killing all 14 people on board, Amazonas state Governor Wilson Lima announced. “I deeply regret the death of the 12 passengers and two crew members who were victims of the plane crash in Barcelos on Saturday,” Lima said on X, formerly known as Twitter.The Embraer […]

The production of 40 Airbus C295 medium tactical transport aircraft in India will be a “game changer” as it would facilitate the creation of a world-class aerospace ecosystem in the country that would help in manufacturing other planes in the long-run, Indian Ambassador to Spain Dinesh K Patnaik said here. The Indian Air Force received […]

Ahead of President Droupadi Murmu’s visit to Greater Noida next week, the Gautam Buddh Nagar Police on Friday passed an order banning the use of private drones in the area. The restrictions under CrPC Section 144 restriction in the district are likely to be extended as a precautionary measure, a senior police officer said. The […]

Shares of SpiceJet on Friday climbed more than 4 per cent after the company completed a payment of USD 1.5 million to global investment bank and financial services firm Credit Suisse. The stock gained 4.22 per cent to Rs 40 after a positive beginning on the BSE. SpiceJet has complied with the directive of the […]

A loader at the IGI airport was arrested for allegedly stealing valuables from the bags of several passengers. According to the police, a complainant stated that he was going to Halifax, Canada along with his family and they were taking wheelchair assistance from an airline. The passenger was carrying an iPhone14 Pro Max in his […]

Eight people, including the pilot and co-pilot, were injured when a private aircraft veered off the runway and crash-landed at the Mumbai airport on Thursday evening. All the eight injured persons were admitted Criticare Asia Hospital at Andheri (East) in north Mumbai. Of the injured were the pilot Capt Sunil and co-pilot Capt Neil. A […]

A small aircraft with six passengers and two crew members on board veered off the runway at the Mumbai airport on Thursday amid heavy rains, sources said. No casualty has been reported as of now, they said. The Learjet 45 aircraft VT-DBL belonging to VSR Ventures was operating flight from Vizag to Mumbai, according to […]

A court here on Thursday remanded Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal to 14-day judicial custody in a money laundering case linked to an alleged fraud of Rs 538 crore at the Canara Bank. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Goyal on September 1 under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) following a long session of […]

India’s domestic air passenger traffic rose about 23 per cent year-on-year to 1.24 crore in August and was 6 per cent higher than the pre-Covid level (August 2019) of around 1.18 crore, credit rating agency Icra said on Thursday. On a sequential basis, the growth in traffic during the previous month was around 3.2 per […]