How safe is the sky in India?
This is a question that many asked after the destruction of June Air India crashkilling at least 270 people. Boeing Boeing Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner went down less than a minute after getting out of Ahmedabad Airport in Western India on 12 June.
“The Indian sky is always safe – in the past and even now,” said Faiz Ahmed Kidwai, Dgcace Afice Regulator (DGCA) – DGCA Avicate
“If you look at the world’s safety metrics, such as Published by International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)that tracks the number of accidents per million flights, India often makes better than the average in the world, “he said.
“Only two years within the 2010-2024 period in which we exceeded the global average – the years when the accidents happened.”
On August 2020, Air India Express Flight 1344 crashes After skiding a rain-sounding tabletop runway in Kozhikode, killing 21 people. A decade before, in May 2010, Flight 812 from Dubai The overshot of Mangalore’s passage and falls in a bang, leaving 158 dead. Air India crash in June is the third country accident in 15 years.
While such major accidents remain rare, the new heading raises new concerns. From a flight to Delhi-Srina
The most recent involved Spicejet, fourth largest and largest exterior operating costs.
The economic times The newspaper knows that the aviation registry recently calls the plane leadership after a series of alarming findings – not from the usual British audit.
The newspaper reported this year starting this year when both of Spicejet’s de havilland Q400 turbopoprops showed no propeller failures. The plane alerting propellers, a Gefospace led by the UK manufacturer in the UK, which found the internal damage to the propellers.
Each propeller has two races, or rings or tracks. In this case, the content is damaged. Instead of discussing the cause of the cause, the spicejet “is reported continuously to apply more grease in (whole) unit instead of discussing the cause of the cause”. Insurgant with the lack of corrective action, the development of an issue directly to regulating aviation in India, reported in the newspaper.
Long audit DGCA in April “reveals even more deficiencies, including snag events”, the report says.
Mr. Kidwai told BBC that “Turboprop Propeller issue has helped one of the continuations of continuing Spicejet”.
“We took it to Spicejet and ensures that they have corrected action. We also know that senior management will never be able to keep the spicejet people.” We do some of what they do, “he said.
More recently, Rabause Aviation Watsdog reports the Budget of the Air India Budget in March for the delay in the Mandatory Engine to Subject to an Airbus A320 and falistifying records to indicate obedience.
Air India Express tells the news agency this recognizes DGCA error and makes “remedial action and control of steps”.
Mr. Kidwai told BBC that the information in this case reached “self-report by plane”.
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In May, a flight of indigo from Delhi to Srinagar facing severe chaos and rainfalls about 45 minutes after the dispute.
Airbus A321, carrying 222 passengers, reportedly encountered severe vertical air waves – updates followed by overhead trash cans and causing nose damage. Crews declared an emergency and safely reached Srinagar with no damage. The regulator launched an investigation, which Two pilots are mixed.
Mr. Kidwai told the BBC that the regulator now “refines” its guidance for pilots flying in rough situations.
For example, if there is a significant cab lid or any weather pattern that gives a risk – and “we mean what a dangerous action of nautical miles before it reaches, he seems.
“It may include diay, touring, or picking up other appropriate measures.”
Since 2020, Indian domestic carriers reported 2,461 technical errors, according to the Federal Civil Aviation ministry data. Indigo costs more than half (1,288), followed by Spicejet with 633, and Air India and Indian cases declared with 389 cases, as of January 2025.
“Reporting snags on airplanes falling. It’s good,” said Mr. K Kidwai.
“I don’t say I’m happy about it. But I see the amount of growing culture of reporting (snags). It is very good for each snag to take the attention to the airplanes.”
Mr. Kidwai said the number of flights increasingly, it is important to “see if the turbulent time for trips is enough for (maintenance) checks or not”.
To ensure, regulator demands grow: India emerges as the third largest market in the passenger passenger. However, in the last two years, the Ministry of Civil Aviation is facing Budget cutswhich reflects a reduced financial priority for the sector.
Today, the scheduled country’s carriers work almost 850 aircraft – an important increase from about 400 just a decade ago.
The amount of air passengers has more than doubles since 2014-15 – from 116 million to 239 million.
The number of commercial Aerodromo also found a large rise – from about 60-70 a decade ago at about 130-140 today.
“In general, including two scheduled operators, there are 1,288 aircraft operations. We have been operated for more than 2,000 placents, private jet operators, a helicopter service.)
So have the most recent Air India crash crashes on the reputation of air travel in India? Mr. Kidwai said the data does not teach that.
“We looked at the data to assess whether it had any impact on domestic or international operations. There was no significant drop in traffic. At Most PERIOD, AFFECTING BOTH CANCELLATIONS,” He told the BBC.
“It is natural to worry about people after incidents. But over time, because the more clearly emerges and the situation is better to understand. That concern has good healers.”
