Indian aviation regulator DGCA has barred ninety SpiceJet pilots from running the Boeing 737 Max plane after locating them now no longer nicely skilled.
“For the moment, we’ve got barred those pilots from flying the Max and that they must retrain effectively for flying the plane,” DGCA leader Arun Kumar stated in a statement.
He additionally stated that the regulator will take “strict movement towards the ones located chargeable for the lapse.” The pilots will must go through schooling again, in a right manner, at the Max simulator.
The Boeing 737 Max planes have been grounded in India via way of means of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation or DGCA on March 13, 2019, 3 days after the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max plane close to Addis Ababa, which killed 157 people, such as 4 Indians.
The ban at the planes became lifted in August remaining 12 months after the DGCA became glad with US-primarily based totally plane producer Boeing’s vital software program rectifications withinside the plane.
Proper pilot schooling at the simulator became additionally most of the situations of the DGCA for doing away with the ban at the Max planes after a span of 27 months.
A SpiceJet spokesperson these days showed that the DGCA has constrained ninety pilots of the airline from flying the Max planes.
“SpiceJet has 650 pilots skilled at the Boeing 737 Max. The DGCA had an remark at the schooling profile accompanied for ninety pilots, and therefore, as in line with the propose of the DGCA, SpiceJet has constrained ninety pilots from running the Max plane, till those pilots go through re-schooling to the delight of the DGCA. These pilots hold to stay to be had for different Boeing 737 plane,” the spokesperson stated.
“This restrict does now no longer effect the operations of the Max plane whatsoever. SpiceJet, currently, operates eleven Max plane and approximately one hundred forty four pilots are required to perform those plane,” the spokesperson stated.
“Of the 650 skilled pilots at the Max, 560 hold to stay to be had, that’s an awful lot extra than the modern requirement,” the spokesperson stated.
SpiceJet is the handiest Indian airline that has the Max plane in its fleet.
Akasa Air, the brand new airline subsidized via way of means of ace investor Jhunjhunwala and aviation veterans Aditya Ghosh and Vinay Dube, had in November remaining 12 months signed a address Boeing to buy seventy two Max planes. Akasa Air has now no longer were given any of those planes as yet.
