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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Rickelton's ton in vain as SRH beat MI by 6 wickets
Mumbai (PTI): Ryan Rickelton's whirlwind unbeaten ton was overshadowed by Heinrich Klaasen's unbeaten 65 as Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Mumbai Indians by six wickets in an IPL match here on Wednesday.
Chasing an imposing 244-run target, Travis Head (76 off 30) and Abhishek Sharma (45 off 24) shared 129 runs for the opening wicket to set the platform for SRH.
Klaasen (65 not out off 30 balls) then displayed his all-round hitting abilities to guide SRH home with the help of Nitish Kumar Reddy (21) and Salil Arora (30 not out off 10) in 18.4 overs.
Earlier, Rickelton's knock powered MI to 243 for five.
MI rode on a 93-run stand between Rickelton (123 not out off 55 balls) and Will Jacks (46 off 22) in 7.1 overs for the opening stand to power the side.
MI skipper Hardik Pandya scored a valuable 31 off 15 balls before being dismissed.
Praful Hinge (2/54), Eshan Malinga (1/29), Sakib Hasan (1/39) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (1/31) were the wicket-takers for SRH.
Brief Scores:
Mumbai Indian: 243 for 5 in 20 overs (Ryan Rickelton 123 not out; Praful Hinge 2/54).
Sunrisers Hyderabad: 249 for 4 in 18.4 overs (Travis Head 76, Heinrich Klaasen 65 not out; AM Ghazanfar 2/51).
