Aviation regulator DGCA should put in place norms to ensure lessors provide information about their aircraft leased to domestic airlines whenever there is a probe, as per a recommendation by AAIB. <\/p>\n
It has been made by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) while submitting its report on an emergency landing incident of a SpiceJet aircraft last year. <\/p>\n
The report, which was submitted to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in November 2016, was made public this week. <\/p>\n
SpiceJet’s Mumbai-Delhi flight, with 158 people on board, had made an emergency landing at the Mumbai airport on March 19, 2016. The A-319 aircraft involved in the incident was wet-leased from Bulgarian operator BH Air. <\/p>\n
No one was injured in the incident. <\/p>\n
Under DGCA regulations, a domestic airline operator is required to maintain a detailed maintenance and operational information about leased aircraft. <\/p>\n
In its report, AAIB said BH Air “did not respond to the request of SpiceJet (the lessee) for incident information that was made after the validity of the wet lease period”. <\/p>\n
When a plane is taken on wet lease, the lessor also provides crew, maintenance and insurance. <\/p>\n
Against this backdrop, the report has recommended that provisions should be there to ensure lessors share information about aircraft whenever required for the investigation purpose. <\/p>\n
“Provision should be made in DGCA regulations to ensure the lessor must provide aircraft incident\/accident information to the lessee whenever required for incident investigation,” it said. <\/p>\n
AAIB investigates serious incidents and accidents involving Indian aircraft that are referred to it by the civil aviation ministry. <\/p>\n
During the investigation, AAIB found that the leased aircraft had suffered failure of hydraulic system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Aviation regulator DGCA should put in place norms to ensure lessors provide information about their aircraft leased to domestic airlines whenever there is a probe, as per a recommendation by AAIB. It has been made by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) while submitting its report on an emergency landing incident of a SpiceJet aircraft last year. The report, which was submitted to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in November 2016, was made public this week. SpiceJet’s Mumbai-Delhi flight, with 158 people on board, had made an emergency landing at the Mumbai airport on March 19, 2016. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}