After eight malfunction incidents in the previous 18 days, India’s aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), has sent SpiceJet a show cause notice.
According to the 1937 Aircraft Rules, SpiceJet “has failed to establish safe, efficient and dependable aviation services,” the DGCA stated in a statement.
The examination of accidents revealed that insufficient maintenance efforts and poor internal safety monitoring (because the majority of occurrences were caused by component or system failure), respectively), had degraded safety margins, according to the notice.
SpiceJet has been given three weeks by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to respond to the notice. Additionally, the DGCA’s examination of SpiceJet in September 2021 discovered that component suppliers weren’t getting paid on time, which caused a scarcity of spare parts.
The statement read, “Financial assessment carried out by DGCA in September 2021 has also revealed that the airline is operating on a “cash-and-carry” (model) and suppliers/approved vendors are not being paid on a regular basis, leading to shortages of spares and frequent invoking of MELs (minimum equipment lists).”
In response to SpiceJet’s show cause notice from the DGCA, India’s Minister of Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia stated that “passenger safety is important.” He wrote in a tweet that “even the smallest error impeding safety will be properly probed & course-corrected.”
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