No Distress Call, No Flight Data Recorder: Probe Body On Kanpur Plane Crash
A preliminary report by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau into a fatal training flight crash in Kanpur found that the flying school lacked proper flight-data monitoring procedures. The report recommends that the DGCA enforce stricter adherence to safety circulars for all training organizations.
Why it matters
This investigation highlights critical safety and regulatory gaps in aviation training infrastructure, which are vital for preventing future accidents.
The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), in its preliminary report into the August 27 crash of a Garg Aviation training aircraft in Kanpur, found that the flying training organisation (FTO) failed to comply with prescribed flight-data monitoring requirements and had no standard operating procedure for monitoring such data.The preliminary report also recommends that the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) direct Garg Aviation and other flying training organisations to strictly adhere to the flight data monitoring requirements laid down in the regulator's 2022 circular.The AAIB found that while Garg Aviation claimed it was carrying out random monitoring of data recorded by the aircraft's Garmin system, it maintained no records of such monitoring and had no standard operating procedure (SOP) defining how the monitoring was conducted or what flight exceedance limits were to be considered."When queried on flight data monitoring, the FTO stated that random monitoring of Garmin data was being…
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