NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has asked airlines to check aircraft door seals to avoid pressurisation issued experienced after take off or during flight. The regulator has said number door seal failures are happening every year, sometimes with serious consequences. On some flights, passengers had complained of headache or even nose bleed in a serious case of cabin pressurisation failure.
“The maintenance programme prescribes procedure for the inspection of door seal condition. However, investigations have revealed that in few cases pressurisation snag occurred in number of sectors operated by the aircraft before they were finally identified as seal failure and rectified. To avoid recurrence of such incidents and improve the operational safety all the airlines are required to ensure meticulous adherence of the inspection procedures prescribed by the manufacturer,” the DGCA circular issued on Wednesday says.
“Number of incidents occur every year involving aircraft failure to pressurise after take-off or cabin pressurisation failure during flight. At time such failures had serious consequences.
