Runway Accidents During Monsoon 2019: DGCA Issues Circular for Airline Operations During Rains, Instructs Airports to Ensure Passengers' Safety
With the incessant rains hampering the air movement of the financial capital in the last couple of days, the Director General of Civil Aviation on Wednesday has issued a circular for airline operations during monsoon to ensure passengers' safety.
New Delhi, July 3: With the incessant rains hampering the air movement of the financial capital in the last couple of days, the Director General of Civil Aviation on Wednesday has issued a circular for airline operations during monsoon to ensure passengers' safety.
Citing the recent incidents of overshoot, skidding, hard landing etc in the airport, DGCA said, as quoted by ANI, "The airlines have been advised by way of an Air Safety Circular yesterday on precautions to be taken by air operators while planning operations during monsoons." Mumbai Rains Forecast For July 3, 2019: Intermittent Rains With Isolated Heavy Showers Expected, Coupled With High Tide Alert
Stating the precautionary measures taken by the civil aviation monitoring body, it informed, "We've also instructed Heads of Flight Safety of airlines to include in their safety briefings to pilots, an express instruction to refrain from landing with unstabilized approach while experiencing adverse weather conditions & initiate a Go-around."
It is to be known that continuous rains over the last couple of days in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Pune have brought life to a standstill and several instances of airliners overshoot, skidding, hard landing, among other have occurred, leading to the risk of passengers onboard.
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