The Directorate General of Civil Aviation as usual instead of going into the indepth probe as to who really is responsible for the serious technical snags in the AI 71 Air India Dreamliner which crashed a few minutes after taking off from Ahmedabad Airport hitting a Hospital mess claiming 270 lives in all without holding those at the top responsible stringently punishing them, has punished officers of AI by removing the Divisional Vice president Choorah Singh, Chief manager DOPS crew rescheduling Pinky Mittal and Mrs. Payal Arora, Crew scheduling Planning from their present positions holding them directly responsible for serious and repeated operational lapses, thus safeguarding the DGCA officers at the top for this serious negligence and incompetence.
According to the ORDER issued by the Assistant Director of Operations, Flight Standard Directorate, under DGCA issued by Himanshu Srivastava punishing these three officers of Air India leaving the senior officers for their negligence and apathy scot-free said that the charges levelled against these three officers of AI are – unauthorised and non complaint crew pairings, violation of mandatory licence and recency norms and systematic failures in scheduling protocols and oversight.
The DGCA ridiculous order issued clear cut directions to Air India to remove all the above officers from all roles and responsibilities relating to the crew rescheduling and rostering. Inter- Desciplinary action may be proceeded against these officials with any further delay and the outcome of the proceedings reported to DGCA forthwith including allocation of non performing roles to these officers penalized.
After such a huge tragedy that has claimed 270 precious lives such a ridiculous alleged coverup of lenient punishment to junior officers with top brass completely left out speaks of the fact that an exercise to keep the countrymen in dark has commenced by the DGCA.
In Uttarakhand too there had been five incidents of emergency chopper crashes of the private chopper companies and two major crashes killing twelve passengers , the DGCA has been extremely complacent and apathetic with suspending the services of the few chopper companies for the time being and suspending the licences of two pilots for six months.
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