After Smoke In Spicejet Cabin, Centre To "Strengthen" Aviation Watchdog
NDTV
Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi wrote to Aviation Minister Scindia, highlighting an incident of smoke inside the cabin of a SpiceJet's flight and sought necessary action to ensure the highest level of safety standards.
The civil aviation ministry will create a "substantial" number of posts at the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to enhance its safety oversight function, Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has said.
Responding to a recent communication by Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi, the civil aviation minister also said the DGCA has completed as many as 202 surveillance inspections in this fiscal so far.
Chaturvedi, in a letter to Mr Scindia, had on October 14 highlighted an incident of smoke inside the cabin of a SpiceJet's Goa-Hyderabad flight and sought necessary action to ensure airlines maintain the highest level of safety standards.
On October 12, SpiceJet's Bombardier Q400 aircraft operating its flight to Hyderabad from Goa had an emergency landing in Hyderabad after smoke filled up its cabin.
