No Compromise On Passenger Safety: Minister On Repeated Flight Snags
NDTV
Multiple incidents have been reported this year which have forced aircraft to either turn back to their originating station or land at their destination with degraded safety margins.
Passenger safety is of paramount importance and there cannot be any compromise in that aspect, said Union Minister of Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia on the repeated technical snags that occurred in domestic airlines.
Multiple incidents have been reported this year which have forced aircraft to either turn back to their originating station or land at their destination with degraded safety margins.
"We have taken decisive actions, (regulator) DGCA has done spot checks and audits and several actions were taken," the civil aviation minister said in a briefing.
A total of 478 technical snags were reported in past one year -- July 2021 - June 2022, the minister informed Lok Sabha in a written reply on Thursday.
