The General Directorate for Civil Aviation (DGCA) found in Air India 51 safety waste in its July audit, including a lack of adequate training for some pilots, the use of unapproved simulators and poor list system, according to Reuters government report. | Photo Credit: Reuters
The General Directorate for Civil Aviation (DGCA) found in Air India 51 safety waste in its July audit, including a lack of adequate training for some pilots, the use of unapproved simulators and poor list system, according to Reuters government report.
The airline owned by the TATA group is already facing a warning announcement of the operation of aircraft without checking emergency equipment, not changing part of the engine over time and fitting records, along with other outages related to the management of the crew fatigue.
An eleven -page report on the confidential audit from the Aviation watchdog has seen seven significant “level I” violations that need to be repaired by July 30, and 44 other unfinters that need to be resolved by August 23.
Officials stated that in some non -specific 787 and 777 pilots found “recurring gaps in the field of training” and stated that they did not complete their monitoring obligations before compulsory periodic evaluation.
Not related to the Ahmedabad crash
The annual audit was not related to the deadly Boeing 787 crash last month, which killed 260 people in Ahmedabad, but its findings come when the airline faces renewed control after the accident.
Fleet Air India includes 34 Boeing 787s and 23 Boeing 777s, according to Flightradar24 website.
Officials who marked operating and security risks wrote in their report that Air India did not make “correct routes” for some Category C airports – which can have demanding layouts or terrain – and conducted for such airports with simulators that did not meet qualifying standards.
“This may be responsible for the unconscious of security risks during access to demanding airports,” said DGCA audit report.
In her statement, Reuters Air India said she was “fully transparent” during the audit. He added that “he submits our response to the regulatory body within the set time framework together with details of the corrective measures”.
The preliminary report on the June accident found that the fuel control switches were almost simultaneously inverted after take -off and pilot confusion was in the cockpit. One pilot asked the other why he cut off the fuel and the other replied that he did not do so, the report said.
DGCA has often identified concerns about Air India pilots, which violate the boundaries of their period and audit, said last month in Delhi AI-787 exceeded the limit of 2 hours and 18 minutes, calling it non-compliance with “Level I”.
The audit was performed by 10 DGCA inspectors and included four more auditors.
It also criticized the airlines schedule that said that it “does not give a hard warning” unless a minimum number of crew members have been deployed on the flight, adding that at least four international flights have flew with an insufficient cabin guide.
Reuters said last week that Air India’s executives, including the director of the airline and the training director, were sent on July 23, notifying 29 “system” sinks, pulling an airline for ignoring “repeated” warnings. Air India said it responds to the regulatory body.
Published – 29 July 2025 22:27
