MUMBAI: Bir Singh Rai, deputy director-general of the Directorate of Air Safety, has been removed from the post. He was in charge of air safety from 2010 onwards. In the last one year, Rai's probe reports into air accidents and incidents were rejected by the aviation regulator for being misleading.
A senior DGCA official confirmed that Rai has been removed from the post of deputy director, airsafety. DGCA Bharat Bhushan was not available for comment.
The two most controversial reports filed by Rai pertained to the Kingfisher Airlines runway overrun in 2009 and the Air India Express aircraft incident in 2010. The Air India Express aircraft operating the Dubai-Pune flight had plunged suddenly several thousand feet after the aircraft's auto-pilot disengaged.
In the Kingfisher Airlines runway overrun, the investigation report noted it as an "incident" instead of calling it an "accident", by going against the definition for these terms as laid down by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).
"Both the investigations reports filed by Rai had technical discrepancies. After the DGCA had these reports on its website, the aviation regulator had to pull them out following complaints," said a commander.
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