DGCA issues advisory for airport operators to check bird strikes

MUMBAI: Following the recent incidents of bird strikes, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has asked airport operators to review their wildlife hazard management programme and send monthly action report and wildlife strike data to the regulator.
Early this month, a Vistara aircraft that took off from Varanasi for Mumbai operating flight UK622 returned to land back within 30 minutes of departure after a bird hit and damaged the aircraft nose. A day earlier, a Chandigarh-bound Go First aircraft suffered a suspected bird hit
on take off and returned to Ahmedabad.