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RGIA police arrested Hyderabad resident S Gangaram for smoking inside an IndiGo flight arriving from Dubai. Despite the DGCA ban, he carried cigarettes and a lighter and smoked in the lavatory. Airline staff seized the items and alerted authorities

The DGCA has removed three Air India officials from crew scheduling duties after repeated violations came to light. The directive follows a deadly Dreamliner crash in Ahmedabad and raises concerns over compliance failures within the airline’s operations team.

The deceased, identified as Aniket Mahajan, was on a solo training flight at the time of the accident

Civil Aviation Minister Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu, while expressing relief over the safe landing, said that the DGCA has been ordered to conduct a thorough examination of the aircraft to find out the exact cause behind the episode.

According to DGCA data, 136,422 passengers flew from Hyderabad to Delhi in August 2024, while 109,924 passengers traveled on the Hyderabad-Mumbai route. These figures reflect a broader trend of consistent passenger growth throughout the year, with the Hyderabad-Delhi route consistently experiencing higher traffic each month.

As a sizable percentage of India’s drones continue to be imported, there is a need to ensure their quality control

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has come up with the draft because perfumes generally have a high alcohol content and can affect the breathalyzer test.

The country's aviation regulator the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has sought a report of the incident from the airline.

"Indigo A320-Ceo aircraft VT-IFM operating flight 6E-2131 from Delhi to Bangalore was involved in reject takeoff as Engine two Fail warning came.

New Delhi: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has penalised an air traffic controller (ATC) at the Delhi Airport after he tested positive for a psychoactive substance. Sources said that he has been removed from duty by the aviation regulator. Posted at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) in Delhi, he was subjected to […]

New Delhi: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has suspended the licence of the pilot-in command (PIC) of the SpiceJet flight for six months, sources confirmed on Saturday. The PIC’s co-pilot had asked the captain to skirt the clouds ahead and not fly through them but he ignored. It happened in pertinence with the […]

New Delhi: Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Tuesday said a three-member team under the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) will conduct a fact-finding enquiry and collect the evidence within a week from today into the IndiGo barring a specially-abled child from boarding a flight incident. The Civil Aviation Minister said that the team […]

The plane had departed from the Delhi airport at 2.20 am on Thursday and no one noticed the bat before the take off, they mentioned.

The latest directives from DGCA come against the backdrop of rising number of coronavirus cases in certain parts of the country even as domestic air traffic is improving