The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Friday removed Air India’s flight safety officer in connection with the hard landing of a Bangalore-Hyderabad flight on June 28. A senior official in the DGCA said, “We had sought responses from Air India on hard landing at Hyderabad airport. The airline did not provide us the data from the flight recorder even when there is a norm to preserve it for six months.” The order has been issued with immediate effect, the official added. [related-post] On June 28, Air India’s Bangalore-Hyderabad flight touched down at the airport, but immediately took off again, citing bad weather, sources said. The DGCA served a showcause notice to the airline after the incident was brought to its notice. The regulator had sought flight monitoring data for the period between May 23 and June 25, 2015 from the airline’s safety head to carry out investigation into the incident. However, the safety officer failed to provide the data and the hence the DGCA could not carry out the probe.
