After six people aboard a helicopter bound to Kedarnath, he had a narrow leak when he carried out an emergency landing on the RudraPrayag highway 7 June, the General Directorate for Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Monday suspended two operators, including Kestrel Aviation, for standard operational procedures (SOP).
Given the substitute “occurrences” including helicopters during Char Dham Yatra, DGCA also decided to intensify security supervision over helicopter operations in Uttarakhand, including the performance of live monitoring and surprising audits, PTI news agency reported.
Dga’s interventions on helicopter operators
The regulatory body emphasized that it has “zero tolerance” policy for security violations, he said in his latest forcing measures that the operation of Kestrel Aviation PVT LTD in Uttarakhand was immediately suspended, an investigation, said.
This is further to suspend the operation of another operator for safety violations in May, he said without naming the operator.
According to an official DGCA statement, if necessary, the need to “limit” the helicopter operations in Char Dham.
DGCA also actively monitors live cameras provided by the UtTarakhand (UCADA) Office in Kedarnath.
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Recently, several occurrences involving helicopter operations during Char Dham Yatra in Uttarakhand have underlined “the need to further strengthen security supervision of these operations,” the regulator said.
According to the statement, a security investigation has started for each of these events to identify contributing factors, including mechanical failures, operating errors and weather -related problems.
“DGCA reaffirms its perennial commitment to the safety of aviation and actively responds to these events and has ordered special audits/improved supervision for helicopters involved in shuttle services and charter operations in Uttarakhand,” she said.
In addition, it is reported that the directives have been issued to all helicopters operators, which limits operations to OGy conditions until the next command.
On Monday, DGCA presented two helicopters operators who carry out the shuttle and charter services to Kedarath of their relevant helips, did not follow the SOP, especially when it comes to proper parking of helicopters.
“As a result, fast measures were taken and their operations were suspended for two hours,” she said.
According to the regulator, any deviation from SOP from helicopters is detected in real time, allowing immediate corrective measures.
Four crashes per month
According to the PTI report, the last month he himself recorded four accidents. The private helicopter had to carry out an emergency landing in Guptkashi from Uttarakhand’s RudraPrayag district on Saturday.
All passengers on board the helicopter on the way to Kedarnath Dham were safe. The helicopter belonged to Kestrel Aviation Private Limited. Instead of helad, he made a preventive landing on the road.
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DGCA said that the AW119 helicopter (reg.
The hard landing of the helicopter on Saturday comes about a month after another private helicopter on the way to the Gangotri temple for crashes near the gangnani in the Uttarkashi District on May 8, killing six people, including five women and pilot, and left one male passenger seriously injured.
May 12. The helicopter returning from Badrinath to Sersi with pilgrims on board was forced to carry out an emergency landing due to poor visibility at the school playground in Ukhimath. All pilgrims were safe. The helicopter took off again after about an hour when the weather improved, PTI informed.
17th May with the ambulance Heli z Aiims Rishikesh landed near Kedarnath’s helad in Uttarakhand due to damage to his back. Fortunately, all three residents on board – doctor, pilot and medical staff – escaped unharmed.
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