NEW DELHI: Indian carriers on Thursday informed the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) that aircraft are now being checked and certified by properly-trained technical staff at all airports across the country. After analysing the spate of engineering-related occurrences in recent months, the regulator had on July 18 identified \u201cimproper identification of cause of a reported defect and non-availability of required certifying staff to cater to multiple scheduled arrivals and departures in a short interval\u201d among the contributory factors for the same. It had ordered airlines to resolve these issues by July 28.
\nA DGCA official said on Thursday: \u201cIn order to address the shortfalls, a series of meetings were held with airlines (and they were directed to) make available required type-rated certifying staff at all stations (airports) for ensuring that the defects are properly rectified before the aircraft is released for operations. All airlines have informed that all stations have now been manned by type rated certifying staff by sending them on either \u2018temporary posting\u2019 or \u2018on flight duty\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Indian carriers on Thursday informed the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) that aircraft are now being checked and certified by properly-trained technical staff at all airports across the country. After analysing the spate of engineering-related occurrences in recent months, the regulator had on July 18 identified \u201cimproper identification of cause of a reported defect and non-availability of required certifying staff to cater to multiple scheduled arrivals and departures in a short interval\u201d among the contributory factors for the same. It had ordered airlines to resolve these issues by July 28. A DGCA official said on Thursday: \u201cIn […]<\/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-509989","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\/509989","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=509989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}