Mumbai: The recent incident of alleged negligence by the Jet Airways crew causing nose bleeding like issues and temporary deafness of its passengers has prompted the Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to begun an inspection of the training programme conducted by the company for its crew, a senior regulatory official has said.

The guidelines by the DGCA stipulate that all air line operators to develop a good training programme for their crew and dispatchers. The operator is also required to ensure as an responsibility that its training programme should be complete, up to date and in compliance with the DGCA guidelines.

“The DGCA has commenced a three-day inspection of Jet Airways’ training programme. During the exercise, it will assess all aspects of its training programme and also find out whether the airline is in compliance to those norms which are part of the training manual,” a DGCA official told news agencies.

The official further said that the inspections were started on Monday and will go on until Thursday.

The official claimed that the private airline is presently facing cash drought and has defaulted on the staff’s salary payments. He also said that the airline did not have a training chief for over a month. The private airline is owned by the Naresh Goyal.

As per the airline’s claim, the inspection is nothing more than a routine affair.

“Senior commander K Venkat Vinod currently heads our training establishment, having taken it over from Capt Veisheh Oberoi”, the airline said in a text message to news agencies.

The inspection comes at a time, when the private airline is conducting its comprehensive financial audit amid cash shortage. And it also assumes significance due to the fact that its pilots have been responsible for a spate of incidents which includes the mid-air scare that took place last week at its Mumbai-Jaipur flight last week.

Last week, a Mumbai to Jaipur Jet Airways with 171 people on board had gone through mid-air scare as the cabin pressure of the airline was lost after the crew “forgot” to turn on a control switch resulting in the bleeding of 30 passengers from ears and nose. The aircraft was forced to return to Mumbai.

It is worth noting, that on August 6, two of the airline’s pilots had attempted to take off from a taxiway parallel to the runway at the Riyadh airport in Saudi Arabia, and as a result, DGCA suspended the flying license of both.

The airline had said that about 148 people on board the Mumbai-bound Jet flight did not get hurt after the aircraft went off the runway after the takeoff was aborted from there on August 3.

The pilots in the aircraft were informed about a barrier on the runway and at that time the airline was taxing at 100 knots and veered off the runway due to the sudden stopping of it.

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