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DGCA issues safety instructions after SpiceJet skids off the runway

Airlines have been asked to refrain from landing with unstabilised approach while experiencing adverse weather conditions and initiate a go around.

Big questions on safety, pilot training after 5 Indian planes veer off runway in 3 days

The aircraft involved are SpiceJet and Air India Express. Half the incidents occurred in wet weather, for which airlines have to ensure their pilots undergo specific training.

Do risk assessment during adverse weather conditions, aviation regulator DGCA tells airlines

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation in India issued a circular after incidences of planes overshooting runways.

DGCA says Indian airlines will avoid ‘affected Iranian airspace’ & flights to be re-routed

DGCA order comes two days after the US aviation regulator prohibited American operators from flying over Iranian airspace due to tensions between the two nations.

DGCA ropes in IITs, five international firms to take on rogue drones flying near airports

Monitoring drones in sensitive areas is difficult since there is no way to communicate with or identify operators.

Not just Jet Airways, this is how India’s booming civil aviation sector went bust

In 6 months, Jet Airways has gone under, air fares have risen, passenger traffic growth has plateaued, and hundreds of aircraft are grounded. What went wrong?

Kolkata shuts flight operations for 17 hours as Cyclone Fani hits east coast

DGCA has suspended the arrival and departure of all flights from 3 pm Friday to 8 am Saturday at Kolkata airport in view of Cyclone Fani.

Air India & Indigo fly without extra fuel for diversions, risky experiment say experts

New system allows such flights if destination airport has two or more runways, and if there’s good weather and a 5 km visibility when the plane is an hour away.

DGCA to seek concrete & credible revival plan from Jet Airways, says official

A senior official of the aviation regulatory body also said that DGCA will extend help within the regulatory framework to help restart Jet Airways.

Inside story of why DGCA is conducting a safety audit of Indigo’s A320neo Airbus planes

Since 2017, Pratt & Whitney-powered Airbus A320neos have faced emergency landings, smoke-filled cabins and many questions about passenger safety.

On Camera

Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.