DGCA Suspends Alchemist Aviation Approval After Fatal Accident
Aug 29, 2024 12:11
The DGCA has suspended Alchemist Aviation's flying training organization approval following a safety audit that found serious non-compliance after a fatal trainee aircraft accident.
New Delhi, Aug 29 (PTI) Aviation watchdog DGCA has suspended the approval for Alchemist Aviation following an audit done in the wake of a fatal trainee aircraft accident that found the flying training organisation being non-compliant with regulations.
The move comes less than two weeks after the organisation's trainee aircraft was involved in the fatal accident that killed the two people on board -- instructor and trainee pilot.
Following the accident on August 20, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) conducted a special safety audit of Alchemist Aviation on August 23 and 24.
"During the audit, several serious deficiencies and non-compliances of regulatory provisions were found," DGCA said in a release on Thursday.
Alchemist Aviation is into local flying at Jamshedpur Sonari airport in Jharkhand. The regulator said it has suspended the approval granted to Alchemist Aviation to operate as a Flying Training Organisation.
"The FTO will have to mandatorily undergo a de novo rectification process to ensure obligatory compliances," it added.
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