Lok Sabha Question No. 1606 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-11-24
Subject: Air Safety Violations by Airlines
Ministry: CIVIL AVIATION
Asked by: JYOTIRADITYA MADHAVRAO SCINDIA, MEENAKASHI LEKHI, GAURAV GOGOI, PRALHAD VENKATESH JOSHI, DINESH TRIVEDI, ANURAG SINGH THAKUR

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO: 1606 November 2016)

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## AIR SAFETY VIOLATIONS BY AIRLINES

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SHRI JYOTIRADITYA M SCINDIA SHRIMATI MEENAKASHI LEKHI SHRI GAURAV GOGOI SHRI PRALHAD JOSHI SHRI DINESH TRIVEDI SHRI ANURAG SINGH THAKUR

Will the Minister of CIVIL AVIATION

be pleased

- the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has fouad (a) whether airline operatiors and airline crew in the few several safety violation by years; if s0, the details thereof; past
- from time to time are (ICAO) is conducting a second safety audit of India's air safety details thereof;
- issued by the DGCA in regard to safety (b) whether the are not properly adhered to by many and if the steps Government passengers as well as safety of aircraft issued by DGCA propsoes to take to ensure that the instructions/guidelines properly adhered to by the airlines;
- audit in 2012, India was placed in ICAO's list of 43 (d) whether after the first in 2015 also, it gave significantly lower worst performing nations and later
- Bureau and the steps taken to fill the same; and
- audit have been whether the preparations to tackle all issues during the and if so, the details thereof;
- safety standards in (g) the measures taken by the Government to improve aviation sector?

## ANSWER

Minister of Statc in the Ministry of CIVIL AVIATION

(Shri Jayant Sinha)

- a total of 409 safety and General Aviation have been reported to DGCA The violations by operators/crew were observed in the following areas:
- 2.Violations of PPC (Pilot Proficiency Check)
1. Deficiencies in ramp procedures
- Limitations) 3.Non-compliance for FDTL (Flight and Duty Time
- 4 Non-compliance of Pre-Flight Medical Requirements

Requirements

- 5.Crew over-logged training hours
- 7.Violation of cockpit/cabin discipline
- 6.Unauthorized entry into cockpit
- various Based on the above safety airline operators and involved crew: against

surveillance and audit as per which DGCA has structured procedure for which is available on DGCA website: Annual surveillance Programme is made followed with The findings made during the surveillancelaudits are up

DGCA requirements by the airlines; (6) By and large there is compliance of the surveillance and The regulatory audits conducted by conducted by the concerned airline:

(USOAP) of under the Chicago Convention; Under the USOAR ICAO

teerodromes, air navigation services and aircraft accident

It & (e) ICAO based On the audit does not give any rating to a country. (d) for which corrective action is required to be taken by the State. During the and airworthiness. India took immediate (SSCs) in the areas of operations confirmed during a corrective actions to adaress these concerns which were 'iso by the ICAO audit team in the month of August 2013 and the subsequent SSCs were resolved:

for establishing an effective AlI States are required to fulfill their obligation In order to establish safety oversight under the Chicago Convention to ensure that it has and trained @5 effectively discharging its function of licensing/ approvingl manpower system to their continued surveillance and resolve deficiencies found: areas wherein deficiencies are existing: out

- DGCA incorporates changes in its regulations as and when there are changes in the standards and recommended practices of ICAOThis is an ongoing
- are 2 total of 21 posts created in Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) A vacancy circular has been issued to fill up 17 (Technical Posts) out of Z1 posts to be filled up o Deputation basis; Necessary action for filling up the remaining 4 (Secretarial) posts has been taken up with Department of Personnel & Training (DoP&T)
- (g) As part of Accident Prevention Programme following measures are taken
- incident data is regularly analyzed and based on the analysis, Air Safety Circulars are issued to bring important observations/findings to the notice Of the operators to avoid the recurrence %f the accidents
- 3.A5 per the annual surveillance program; audit % the operators are carried out; Recommendations emanating from such reports are followed up with the operator for implementation; The compliance % the action taken by the operator is further verified during the next audit:
2. Recommendations emanating from the Accidentlincident investigation reports are implemented to prevent such mishaps

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