The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has suspended Air India’s flight safety chief for one month after finding lapses during a surveillance audit conducted in July, the body said in a statement on Thursday.
“The DGCA team carried out the surveillance of Air India on July 25-26, 2023 in the areas of internal audit, accident prevention work and availability of required technical manpower…(and) found deficiencies in the accident prevention work carried out by the organisation and the availability of the requisite technical manpower as required in the approved Flight Safety Manual and the relevant Civil Aviation Requirements,” the civil aviation regulator said in the statement.
The regulator said it observed that some of the internal audit/spot checks, claimed to be carried out by Air India, were done in a perfunctory manner and not as per the regulatory requirements.
