DGCA imposes Rs 30 lakh penalty on Air India, CFO Information, ETCFO
Aviation security regulator DGCA has imposed a penalty of Rs 30 lakh on Tata Group-owned Air India for allegedly permitting considered one of its pilots to function a flight with out complying with sure regulatory necessities. The DGCA so as of January 29 additionally stated that it has discovered “recurrent rostering points…,” in regards to the airline.
The order to slap penalty got here after the response of a show-cause discover to Air India’s head of operations and head of rostering, amongst different executives, on December 13, 2024 was discovered “unsatisfactory.”
The pilot “operated a flight on seventh July regardless of not having the obligatory recency requirement of three take off and landings, resulting in violation of para 3 of civil aviation requirement,” the regulator stated in its order.
Air India didn’t reply to a PTI question on this subject.
The Directorate Normal of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in its order additionally stated that “the (rostering) controllers (at Air India) ignored the a number of spurious alerts reflecting on CAE window, as per the submission made by M/s Air India Restricted.”
“Now, due to this fact, in train of the powers conferred beneath Rule 162 of the Plane Guidelines, 1937 … (DGCA) hereby imposes a penalty of Rs 30,00,000…,” as per the order.>
