Ahmedabad Crash: Transport Committee Could Talk about Air Security Issues, Seemingly To Summon Airways
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Representatives from airways, Airports Authority of India & CISF could also be requested to depose earlier than the panel, other than firms working helicopter providers in spiritual places
The Air India flight plummeted to the bottom minutes after departing from Ahmedabad’s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Worldwide Airport on June 12. (Picture Credit score: PTI)
Members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Tradition are more likely to elevate broader considerations surrounding air security in gentle of the Ahmedabad flight crash and the helicopter crash in Uttarakhand’s Kedarnath.
A number of members have already urged committee chairperson Sanjay Jha to prioritise the problem. It’s learnt that the Jha-led panel will formally determine to take up this matter of pressing public concern and search that the Ministry of Civil Aviation officers, BCAS and the DGCA seem earlier than it.
The committee is conscious of the continued investigation within the Air India crash case and due to this fact, wouldn’t assume it sensible to single out this case, the sources mentioned.
Representatives from numerous airways, Airports Authority of India (AAI), and CISF are anticipated to be requested to depose earlier than the panel. The businesses working helicopter providers in numerous spiritual places like Mata Vaishnav Devi and Kedarnath are additionally anticipated to be current earlier than the committee.
“The current crash has been very disturbing and with all type of theories floating, we need to perceive what the SOP actually is in such instances and what are technicalities and technical challenges, position of the pilot and so on,” a supply mentioned.
The committee additionally has BJP MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy as its member. Rudy has been the previous civil aviation minister within the Vajpayee authorities and can be a industrial pilot.
Even after the Ahmedabad crash, a sequence of technical snags was reported onboard the Boeing Dreamliner plane during the last 48 hours, resulting in a number of questions concerning the security of passengers.
In the meantime, after the Kedarnath crash on Sunday, operations of Aryan Aviation for the Char Dham Yatra have been suspended with fast impact. Two helicopters belonging to M/s TransBharat Aviation—VT-TBC (PIC: Capt. Yogesh Grewal, CPL(H)-1453) and VT-TBF (PIC: Capt. Jitender Harjai, CPL(H)-1046)—have been discovered to have been airborne below comparable unsuitable climate circumstances. Accordingly, the licenses of each pilots have been suspended for six months.
A high-level enquiry has additionally been ordered each within the case of the Ahmedabad crash and the Uttarakhand crash. Aside from this, the Centre additionally arrange a high-level committee led by the house secretary on instances just like the Ahmedabad crash.
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