MUMBAI: Airline flights into Imphal airport are currently under scrutiny by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). The question being probed is: during descent to land in Imphal, do certain pilots breach the limits set for a safe descent rate to wilfully carry out an “unstabilized” or unsafe approach and landing in order to save fuel.
\nEarly this week, Capt Amit Singh, an air safety expert sent a mail to the DGCA alerting the regulator to a particular pattern that he had observed in Imphal landings, carried out between January and June 2020. “A total of 28% of flights fell in the high-risk category with high vertical speed (rate of descent) more than the safe limit of 1000 feet\/min, when the aircraft were less than 1000 feet above ground level,” his letter said.
\nResponding to his letter, director general of civil aviation, Arun Kumar said: “We are conducting a detailed fact finding inquiry into the contents of the complaints with regard to these and its safety implications. Based on the outcome, further action shall be initiated.”
\nThese findings have a catch though. Capt Singh said he sourced data from flightradar24, an app that tracks flights real-time. “The data may be prone to errors and inaccuracies as compared to the aircraft flight recorder data therefore I would request DGCA to analyse the airline\u2019s flight recorder data,” he said adding that, to eliminate large scale inaccuracies he had used a single source and followed multiple airline flight operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MUMBAI: Airline flights into Imphal airport are currently under scrutiny by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). The question being probed is: during descent to land in Imphal, do certain pilots breach the limits set for a safe descent rate to wilfully carry out an “unstabilized” or unsafe approach and landing in order to save fuel. Early this week, Capt Amit Singh, an air safety expert sent a mail to the DGCA alerting the regulator to a particular pattern that he had observed in Imphal landings, carried out between January and June 2020. “A total of 28% of flights […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359775","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}