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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar

India’s flight safety systems face ‘existential threat’ from staff shortage, committee warns

Indian MPs have raised alarm over staff shortages at the air safety regulator, describing it as an “existential threat” to flight safety systems in the country.

The parliamentary committee was tasked with reviewing the workings of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) after the devastating crash of an Air India plane that killed 260 people in June, the world's worst aviation disaster for a decade.

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