DGCA suspends flying license of two pilots for unsafe landing at Mangaluru International Airport
Mangaluru: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has suspended flying license of a Pilot-In-Command of a SpiceJet flight and his first officer for 4.5 months for jeopardizing the safety of the aircraft and passengers when they landed their aircraft at the hilltop runway of Mangaluru International Airport on October 31, 2019.
The SpiceJet flight Beoing 737 landed at Mangaluru Airport on October 31 from Dubai and made an unstabilised landing at the runaway after which the runway edge lights were found damaged.
The DGCA probed the landing and issued show cause notices to the pilot and first officer seeking their explanation for the unstabilised landing of the flight.
A top DGCA official added that the replies to the show cause notices was not satisfactory and the investigation also revealed that the aircraft touched the down left of the centerline and further deviated to the left jeopardizing the safety of the aircraft and passengers onboard.
"Our investigation has revealed that the aircraft touched down left of the centerline and deviated further to the left. The delayed corrective input by the crew led to damage of three runway edge lights."
"Reply to the show cause notice (to the pilots) was not satisfactory on following grounds: Delayed corrective input by the crew after touchdown led the aircraft deviating further left and jeopardizing the safety of the aircraft and the passengers. DGCA has suspended the license held by the PIC and first officer for 4.5 months (135 days) from the date of incident," the official added.
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Congress names candidates for 8 Haryana LS seats, fields Kumari Selja, Deepender Hooda
Chandigarh (PTI): The Congress on Thursday announced candidates for eight of the nine Lok Sabha seats it is contesting in Haryana, fielding former Union minister Kumari Selja, Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda and youth leader Divyanshu Budhiraja, besides two sitting MLAs.
The party has also fielded former MP Jai Prakash and leaders Satpal Brahmachari and Mahendra Pratap, according to the list released late Thursday evening.
The Congress is contesting nine of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana. It has not yet announced its candidate for the Gurugram constituency.
The Aam Aadmi Party, a constituent of the opposition INDIA bloc, will contest the Kurukshetra seat.
Congress general secretary and former Union minister Selja will contest from the Sirsa (reserved) seat and sitting MLAs Varun Choudhary and Rao Dan Singh from the Ambala (reserved) and the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh Lok Sabha seats, respectively.
Deepender Hooda, son of former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, will enter the fray from Rohtak. He has represented the Rohtak parliamentary constituency three times in the past.
Jai Prakash has been fielded from Hisar, the Congress' Haryana youth wing president Divanshu Budhiraja from Karnal, Satpal Brahmachari from Sonipat and Mahendra Pratap from Faridabad.
