Plane crash in China: DGCA places Boeing 737 fleets of Indian carriers on ‘enhanced surveillance’

India’s aviation security regulator will step up surveillance on the Boeing 737 fleet operated by airways right here, in gentle of Monday’s crash of a China Eastern flight working the identical plane kind. This means the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) will improve “monitoring of procedures” adopted by Indian carriers in working, sustaining and protecting their 737 fleet airworthy.

Currently, funds airways Air India Express and SpiceJet, along with full-service provider Vistara flt the Boeing 737 plane of their fleets. While most of those are the older generations 737 planes, SpiceJet operates some new technology 737MAX planes as nicely.

“Flight safety is a serious business. We are closely studying the situation and in the interim,we are mounting enhanced surveillance on our 737 fleet,” DGCA chief Arun Kumar advised The Indian Express, including “We are deploying teams to monitor flight procedures, air-worthiness and operations.” SpiceJet has 47 older technology 737 plane, together with 36 737-800 planes. Air India Express has 24 Boeing 737-800 planes, and Vistara has 5 737-800 plane in its fleet.

The China Eastern airplane that crashed Monday with 132 folks on board was an older technology Boeing 737-800, on its means from Kunming to Guangzhou.

Two Boeing 737MAX plane have been concerned in accidents from October 2018 to March 2019, claiming 346 lives. The DGCA had then banned Boeing 737MAX planes in India in March 2019. After Boeing made obligatory software program rectifications to the satisfaction of the DGCA, the ban on the plane’s business operations was lifted after 27 months in August final 12 months.