An aviation expert on Wednesday said that the grounding of all flights across the US was important to avoid any accidents because Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is a monitoring system for all airports in the country.
Air India on Wednesday said that it is in touch with the relevant authority after flights across the US were grounded due to a technical glitch in the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) computer system.
Over 400 flights across the United States have been stranded due to a major outage in the computer system of the US regulator Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wednesday.
All flights across the US were grounded due to a technical glitch in the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) computer system, according to NBC News which reported quoting a source.
Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal, demanding arrests in the recent incidents of drunk men urinating on women on flights, issued a notice to the Delhi Police, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and Air India on Friday.
Delhi Police has written a letter to the authority concerned seeking issuance of Look Out Circular (LOC) against the man who urinated on an elderly lady onboard an Air India flight between New York and Delhi on November 26 last year, said sources on Thursday.
Top officials of India's aviation regulatory body DGCA and Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) are fuming that Air India did not report two shocking incidents of a passenger urinating on a co-passenger within a span of 11 days.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Thursday issued Show Cause notices to Air India, crew members and pilots of the New York-Delhi flight in connection with the urination incident onboard on November 26 last year.
Air India has submitted the report to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) pertaining to the incident of an inebriated male passenger urinating on a female co-passenger in its business class on November 26 last year, said DGCA officials on Thursday.
Taking serious note of the Air India urination incident, the Ministry of Civil Aviation directed the airline to do an internal probe into the matter and submit the report as soon as possible, said top government sources on Thursday.
Delhi Police on Wednesday formed a team to trace the passenger who had allegedly urinated on an elderly co-passenger onboard an Air India flight from New York to Delhi in November last year, said officials.