USA Defence Forces available to train F-FDTL

, president Megawati Soekarnoputri undertook her first state visit to Timor Leste to participate in the new nation's Independence Day celebration. This was a controversial domestic issue that Megawati had to face. But the decision was made that the ...

Around 70 passengers on a Muscat-Chennai Air India flight faced a taxing time as their flight took off three hours late from the Gulf nation due to a runway problem there. The flight was later diverted to Mumbai for technical reasons after which the ...

The issue of pilot fatigue and its implications for safety has been much in the headlines recently, as pilot unions protest against the introduction of revised flight time limitation regulations. BILL READ looks at the background to the debate and ...

0 Comments, Be the first to comment Moneylife Digital Team | 22/03/2013 08:06 PM | The director general of civil aviation (DGCA) has been asked by the Supreme Court to give reasons for not implementing the norms for rationalising the flying hours ...

Senior advocate K T S Tulsi said the petitioners were concerned more about the safety of air passengers than the welfare of pilots. Several representations and requests by the society for speedy implementation of new FDTL norms had gone unheeded, he claimed.