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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Women's quota bill would have ensured defeat of democracy, Constitution: Aaditya Thackeray
Mumbai (PTI): Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Saturday said that the passage of the women's quota bill would have ensured a "total defeat of democracy", alleging that the legislation, linked with a delimitation exercise, was a political tool designed to reduce the voice of states.
Thackeray, in a post on X, claimed that the Bill would have amended the Constitution for the political means of the ruling regime to increase seats, reduce the voice of many states and enable the gerrymandering of constituencies to ensure unfair victories.
"The very amendment that would have ensured the total defeat of democracy and the Constitution in India stands rejected by the unity of the Opposition MPs," he wrote.
The legislation should have been called "Delimitation to ensure unfair victory Bill", the former minister said, adding that there was a genuine need to enable 33 per cent reservation for women in the current number of seats.
"Now, it is up to the government to ensure that it is implemented in the 543 seats of the Lok Sabha for the 2029 elections and all elections across India, if that is the real intent of the government," he wrote.
A Constitution Amendment Bill to implement reservation for women in legislatures in 2029 and increase the number of Lok Sabha seats was defeated on Friday in the Lower House.
While 298 members voted in support of the Bill, 230 MPs voted against it. Out of 528 members who voted, the Bill required 352 votes for a two-thirds majority.
According to the Constitution Amendment Bill, Lok Sabha seats were to be increased to a maximum of 850 from the current 543 to "operationalise" the women's reservation law before the 2029 parliamentary polls, following a delimitation exercise based on the 2011 Census.
