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The Economic Times

DGCA initiates action on 3 airlines, 1 flying training organisation

The DGCA has taken action against several airlines for different lapses, including placing SpiceJet under enhanced surveillance due to safety concerns. Additionally, Air India Express was fined Rs 10 lakh, and Akasa Air was issued a show cause notice for regulatory breaches. The flying training organization Alchemist Aviation had its approval suspended after a fatal accident-related audit.

Business Standard

DGCA suspends approval for flying training firm Alchemist Aviation

Aviation watchdog DGCA has suspended the approval for Alchemist Aviation following an audit done in the wake of a fatal trainee aircraft accident that found the flying training organisation being non-compliant with regulations. The move comes less than two weeks after the organisation's trainee aircraft was involved in the fatal accident that killed the two people on board -- instructor and trainee pilot. Following the accident on August 20, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) conducted a special safety audit of Alchemist Aviation on August 23 and 24. "During the audit, several serious deficiencies and non-compliances of regulatory provisions were found," DGCA said in a release on Thursday. Alchemist Aviation is into local flying at Jamshedpur Sonari airport in Jharkhand. The regulator said it has suspended the approval granted to Alchemist Aviation to operate as a Flying Training Organisation. "The FTO will have to mandatorily undergo a de novo rectification proces