DGCA Pulls Up SpiceJet

New Delhi: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has issued a show cause notice to SpiceJet after eight malfunction incidents in 18 days and gives three weeks to respond to the notice. This came after SpiceJet was hit with another technical snag on Tuesday with the weather radar on one of its flights to China malfunctioning.

“The review (of incidents) transpires that poor internal safety oversight and inadequate maintenance actions (as most of the incidents are related to either component failure or system related failure) have resulted in degradation of the safety margins,” the notice stated. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said that a review of several incidents involving SpiceJet’s planes since April 1 showed that “the aircraft either turned back to its originating station or continued landing to the destination with degraded safety margins”. The letter was made public by India’s civil aviation ministry on Twitter