{"id":514293,"date":"2022-08-16T11:51:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T06:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=514293"},"modified":"2022-08-16T11:51:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T06:21:23","slug":"bird-hits-wildlife-hazards-dgca-issues-lists-of-dos-donts-to-airport-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bird-hits-wildlife-hazards-dgca-issues-lists-of-dos-donts-to-airport-operators\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird hits &amp; wildlife hazards: DGCA issues lists of do\u2019s &amp; don\u2019ts to airport operators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Friday issued a fresh set of directives for airport operators to tackle \u201cpotential wildlife hazards\u201d like animals on runways and bird hits. The regulator has issued two ways \u2014 passive and active management \u2014 to control this issue that aggravates during monsoon when wildlife activities increase and \u201cpose a serious threat to aerodrome operational safety. Most wildlife incidents occur at critical phase of flight resulting in structural damage to an aircraft.\u201d<br \/>\nTitled, \u201cmanagement of potential wildlife hazards at licensed aerodromes\u201d, the advisory circular says: \u201cThe activity of birds and animals in and around an aerodrome is a potential source of hazard to safe operation of aircraft\u2026 possibility of collision between an aircraft and birds\/animals. Wildlife strikes pose a significant threat to flight safety and have caused a number of accidents and incidents in India.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Friday issued a fresh set of directives for airport operators to tackle \u201cpotential wildlife hazards\u201d like animals on runways and bird hits. The regulator has issued two ways \u2014 passive and active management \u2014 to control this issue that aggravates during monsoon when wildlife activities increase and \u201cpose a serious threat to aerodrome operational safety. Most wildlife incidents occur at critical phase of flight resulting in structural damage to an aircraft.\u201d Titled, \u201cmanagement of potential wildlife hazards at licensed aerodromes\u201d, the advisory circular says: \u201cThe activity of birds and animals [&hellip;]<\/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-514293","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\/514293","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=514293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}