New Delhi: In the news yet again for wrong reasons, India's state air carrier Air India has been accused of flouting civil aviation guidelines and putting lives of hundreds of passengers at risk everyday.
A month before the Unites States aviation watchdog Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the agency that downgraded India to Category 2 of safety standards, is scheduled to come to India for an audit, reports reveal that Air India has been violating the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) norms.
The data from several voluntary reports of Air India's Delhi-Sydney and Sydney-Melbourne-Delhi flights shows the crew members were made to fly for 17-18 hours and perform two consecutive landings without the prescribed rest period.
Many of the crew members had lodged complaints regarding the matter and listed out the risk of being incapable of swift action in case of an emergency due to tiredness.
According to the latest Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR) guidelines, Series J Part 1 effective from June 14 2014, an international operation with flight time between 11-14 hours, the flight duty time limitation cannot exceed beyond 16 hours a day.
28/10/14 Priyanka Dube/CNN-IBN/IBN Live
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A month before the Unites States aviation watchdog Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the agency that downgraded India to Category 2 of safety standards, is scheduled to come to India for an audit, reports reveal that Air India has been violating the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) norms.
The data from several voluntary reports of Air India's Delhi-Sydney and Sydney-Melbourne-Delhi flights shows the crew members were made to fly for 17-18 hours and perform two consecutive landings without the prescribed rest period.
Many of the crew members had lodged complaints regarding the matter and listed out the risk of being incapable of swift action in case of an emergency due to tiredness.
According to the latest Civil Aviation Requirement (CAR) guidelines, Series J Part 1 effective from June 14 2014, an international operation with flight time between 11-14 hours, the flight duty time limitation cannot exceed beyond 16 hours a day.
28/10/14 Priyanka Dube/CNN-IBN/IBN Live
