New Delhi. For the first time in the country’s aviation sector, the entire structure for monitoring technical faults has been changed with immediate effect. Frequent delays, cancellations of flights and recent security incidents have forced DGCA to radically tighten the defect reporting system.
According to the new 12-page order, if any scheduled flight is delayed by 15 minutes or more due to technical reasons, its investigation will be mandatory. The company will have to explain why there was a delay? How was it fixed? What measures were taken to prevent it from happening again? These are provisions which were not applicable earlier.
The company will have to immediately inform DGCA over phone about any ‘major defect’. A detailed report will have to be sent within 72 hours. If the defect is repeated three times, it will be considered as ‘Repetitive Defect’ and a separate special investigation will be started on it. DGCA took this strict action because till now the defect reporting system was weak. Till now there was no system like 15 minutes delay check and there was no definition of repeat defect.
