Amidst rising aviation incidents and technical malfunctions involving Indian carriers, Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia held a meeting on safety issues with senior officials of his ministry and regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). During the meeting, the minister took an in depth report from the officials about these incidents during the last one month and instructed them that there ought to be no compromise over passengers’ safety. The meeting comes at a time when a number of flights have made emergency landings resulting from numerous causes. On Sunday, IndiGo’s Sharjah-Hyderabad flight was diverted to Karachi as a precautionary measure after pilots noticed a defect in one of many engines.
On Saturday night time, Air India Express’s Calicut-Dubai flight was diverted to Muscat after a burning scent was noticed within the cabin mid-air. A day earlier an alive chicken was discovered within the cockpit of the Air India Express’ Bahrain-Kochi flight.
SpiceJet is beneath regulatory scanner proper now. On July 6, the DGCA issued a show-cause discover to SpiceJet following at the least eight incidents of technical malfunction in its plane since June 19.
The DGCA is presently investigating all these incidents.
With PTI inputs
