Indian Aviation News As Reported Today
27-12-2011
1.Air India mechanical issues strands hundreds at Pearson.
2.Tool forgotten inside, JetLite engine fails mid-flight.
3.Singapore's Changi Airports to buy 26% in GVK Airports biz for Rs 2,200 crore.
4.Pvt airport developers may be allowed to issue tax-free bonds.
5.36 Kingfisher air hostesses join Air India.
6.Law Ministry's advice sought on amending rule for airport fee.
7.Domestic airfares fall as capacity rises.
8.Demand for air connectivity for Surat gathers momentum.
9.HAL will go for best cost option.
10.Signs to aid flyers glide through customs.
11.Govt veering towards 26% FDI ceiling in aviation.
12.Cash-strapped AI decides to sell, leaseback Dreamliners.
13.Crash preparedness tested at Ahmedabad airport.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
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Monday, August 1, 2011
India, US to sign aviation safety agreement
Aviation safety agreement
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) India and the US are set to sign a bilateral aviation safety agreement (BASA) during US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton's visit next week, an official said Thursday.
'BASA has been approved by the cabinet and will be signed during the visit of Hilary Clinton, the US secretary of state,' said Civil Aviation Secretary Nasim Zaidi on the sidelines of an event here.
According to the ministry, the proposed agreement will open up a huge market for export of aeronautical products manufactured in India to US and other regions of the world.
'This will open up huge potential for investment. It will also usher in mutual acceptance of aeronautical products and parts developed in either country,' Zaidi said.
Aerospace products made in India would be inspected and certified by directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA) and they could then be exported.
Zaidi further said the country's aeronautical products industry is fast growing as more design and manufacturing is being shifted to India.
The two countries have already completed two key processes prior to signing of the bilateral agreement - a 'technical assessment' of the DGCA by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 11 defined areas and a shadow certification project involving review of DGCA's working by the FAA.
A six-member FAA team visited DGCA headquarters here to review the DGCA aircraft certification system and carry out a technical assessment, said the ministry. The FAA team observed that 'the DGCA has a very sound aircraft certification system in place commensurate with the rules, regulations, working procedures, etc'.
The Americans also executed the shadow certification project, examining the DGCA process of awarding works to its contractors.
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New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) India and the US are set to sign a bilateral aviation safety agreement (BASA) during US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton's visit next week, an official said Thursday.
'BASA has been approved by the cabinet and will be signed during the visit of Hilary Clinton, the US secretary of state,' said Civil Aviation Secretary Nasim Zaidi on the sidelines of an event here.
According to the ministry, the proposed agreement will open up a huge market for export of aeronautical products manufactured in India to US and other regions of the world.
'This will open up huge potential for investment. It will also usher in mutual acceptance of aeronautical products and parts developed in either country,' Zaidi said.
Aerospace products made in India would be inspected and certified by directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA) and they could then be exported.
Zaidi further said the country's aeronautical products industry is fast growing as more design and manufacturing is being shifted to India.
The two countries have already completed two key processes prior to signing of the bilateral agreement - a 'technical assessment' of the DGCA by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 11 defined areas and a shadow certification project involving review of DGCA's working by the FAA.
A six-member FAA team visited DGCA headquarters here to review the DGCA aircraft certification system and carry out a technical assessment, said the ministry. The FAA team observed that 'the DGCA has a very sound aircraft certification system in place commensurate with the rules, regulations, working procedures, etc'.
The Americans also executed the shadow certification project, examining the DGCA process of awarding works to its contractors.
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Sunday, July 31, 2011
Jet Airways flight with 134 passengers averts mid-air collision
Jet Airways flight with 134 passengers averts mid-air collision
Aircraft incident
Guwahati, July 21 (IANS) A Jet Airways flight with 134 passengers on board narrowly averted a mid-air collision Thursday, triggering panic aboard, passengers said.
Jet Airways Flight No 9W 2280 from New Delhi to Guwahati was probably flying over Patna when it abruptly lost control, leading to chaos inside.
'First the flight abruptly turned right and then began to plummet. We thought it would crash. There was chaos and people were screaming inside,' Caushik Bezboruah, chief executive officer of News Live, a satellite TV channel from Guwahati, told IANS.
'I heard people crying, some praying on top of their voices. It was a chaotic situation for close to a minute before the pilot took control,' added Bhaskar Sharma, director of News Live.
Both Bezboruah and Sharma were seated in the emergency exit row of the plane.
Soon after, the pilot announced that another plane was approaching from the opposite direction and was inside the 'safe zone'.
'The pilot said the flight's computer system automatically navigated the plane and moved away from the path of the approaching flight to avoid a mid-air collision,' Bezboruah said.
The incident took place around 11.35 a.m. The Jet Airways flight landed safely in Guwahati around 1 p.m.
'No one was injured but I saw a woman with an infant frantically trying to reach her seat from the washroom when this incident took place. She didn't manage to reach her seat and instead sat on the aisle,' Sharma said.
Among those aboard the plane included Assam Congress president Bhubaneswar Kalita and Congress MP Rani Narah. 'God is great. We had a near brush with death,' said Narah.
Jet authorities in Guwahati refused to comment on the incident saying a formal statement, if any, would be made from their head office in Mumbai.
Aircraft incident
Guwahati, July 21 (IANS) A Jet Airways flight with 134 passengers on board narrowly averted a mid-air collision Thursday, triggering panic aboard, passengers said.
Jet Airways Flight No 9W 2280 from New Delhi to Guwahati was probably flying over Patna when it abruptly lost control, leading to chaos inside.
'First the flight abruptly turned right and then began to plummet. We thought it would crash. There was chaos and people were screaming inside,' Caushik Bezboruah, chief executive officer of News Live, a satellite TV channel from Guwahati, told IANS.
'I heard people crying, some praying on top of their voices. It was a chaotic situation for close to a minute before the pilot took control,' added Bhaskar Sharma, director of News Live.
Both Bezboruah and Sharma were seated in the emergency exit row of the plane.
Soon after, the pilot announced that another plane was approaching from the opposite direction and was inside the 'safe zone'.
'The pilot said the flight's computer system automatically navigated the plane and moved away from the path of the approaching flight to avoid a mid-air collision,' Bezboruah said.
The incident took place around 11.35 a.m. The Jet Airways flight landed safely in Guwahati around 1 p.m.
'No one was injured but I saw a woman with an infant frantically trying to reach her seat from the washroom when this incident took place. She didn't manage to reach her seat and instead sat on the aisle,' Sharma said.
Among those aboard the plane included Assam Congress president Bhubaneswar Kalita and Congress MP Rani Narah. 'God is great. We had a near brush with death,' said Narah.
Jet authorities in Guwahati refused to comment on the incident saying a formal statement, if any, would be made from their head office in Mumbai.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
MAINTENANCE ERRORS
It's fairly well-known that most accidents are human error related, at least in part. And in aviation, because pilots are always first to arrive at the scene of an accident, it is generally a maxim that to some degree, pilot error is normally involved - to some degree. It may not necessarily be the primary cause but it could be that a pilot team failed to cope with the circumstances that they were suddenly handed. On the other hand, one is not to know whether (or to what degree) their mount let them down. We rarely hear much about the success stories when a pilot does manage to accommodate a systems or hardware failure and retrieve the situation. And then of course there are the circumstances where a scenario is complicated by weather, fuel shortages, pilot fatigue, terrorism, passenger rage or inexperience.
But what about Maintenance Error? Since the end of the Cold War the pool of Air Force trained technicians around the World has dried up and expertise is becoming a little harder to come by. To what degree will Maintenance Error become a more significant factor in the future? And when it is a materiel failure such as faulty (or deficient) wiring, will it ever be apparent? Is that designated maint error or designer error? Or is there (should there be?) another category of error? Perhaps we could call it regulatory error.
It's fairly well-known that most accidents are human error related, at least in part. And in aviation, because pilots are always first to arrive at the scene of an accident, it is generally a maxim that to some degree, pilot error is normally involved - to some degree. It may not necessarily be the primary cause but it could be that a pilot team failed to cope with the circumstances that they were suddenly handed. On the other hand, one is not to know whether (or to what degree) their mount let them down. We rarely hear much about the success stories when a pilot does manage to accommodate a systems or hardware failure and retrieve the situation. And then of course there are the circumstances where a scenario is complicated by weather, fuel shortages, pilot fatigue, terrorism, passenger rage or inexperience.
But what about Maintenance Error? Since the end of the Cold War the pool of Air Force trained technicians around the World has dried up and expertise is becoming a little harder to come by. To what degree will Maintenance Error become a more significant factor in the future? And when it is a materiel failure such as faulty (or deficient) wiring, will it ever be apparent? Is that designated maint error or designer error? Or is there (should there be?) another category of error? Perhaps we could call it regulatory error.
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