Four senior executives of IndiGo airline were issued show cause notices on Friday by the DGCA after a special audit team of the aviation regulator found safety lapses, according to sources privy to the development.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) carried out the audit at the IndiGo office in Gurgaon on July 8 and July 9, the sources said.
“Captain Sanjiv Bhalla, the head of training; Captain Hemant Kumar, the chief of flight safety; Captain Ashim Mitra, the senior vice-president - operations; Captain Rakesh Srivastava, the QA (Quality Assurance) and Ops Safety, have been issued show cause notices today,” a source told PTI.
The DGCA is conducting special audit of all airlines and airports which are in monsoon-affected areas in the wake of multiple landing incidents across the country.
In its notice to company’s training chief Bhalla, the regulator said that pilots’ corrective training “was either not carried out or delayed” in number of cases when it was recommended by the Flight Safety and Operations Department of the airline.
The regulator said the department sent these recommendations for corrective training after analyzing the data coming out of Flights Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA).