The DGCA has served a showcause notice to four senior officials of IndiGo for failing to ensure corrective training for pilots to avoid accidents, following a surprise inspection at the airline’s facility in Gurugram.
The safety aviation watchdog Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has found lapses in the monitoring of Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA), which is the process of collecting and analysing data from flights to improve safety of flights. These are collected for every flight and are basically pre-emptive measures taken to avoid accidents.
During a surprise check, the DGCA discovered that in a number of cases “the corrective training was either not carried out or delayed”, records of such trainings were not maintained, action recommended were “inconsistent” with the severity of events, pilots are not “made available” to undergo training as well as absence of guidelines for carrying out this monitoring exercise.
The training sessions are conducted for pilots who are involved in “exceedances” or those who exceed the prescribed limits during a flight, for example the rate of descent or rate of rotation, etc.
Earlier, the DGCA had also served similar notices to officials of SpiceJet for safety lapses.