Govt blames 'human error' for recurrent air accidents
KATHMANDU: The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation has underlined 'human error' as a major cause behind recurrent air accidents despite the fact that many probe committee reports had been fully enforced.
At a meeting of the Good Governance and Monitoring Committee of the Parliament held here today, the Ministry's Secretary Prem Kumar Rai also vowed to strictly abide by the concerned policies to check the pilots' health condition before any flight.
Stating that a special focus had been kept on use of new regulations and technologies in the aviation sector, Secretary Rai presented the facts before the meeting acknowledging the occurrence of accidents with aircraft crashing onto cliffs even if aircraft and pilots were in good condition.
Referring to the analysis of the probe committee reports indicating a need to focus on the pilot's behaviour, the Secretary expressed commitment to implement the reports.
The meeting was briefed on the increased risk of accidents when pilots could not find direction due to a sudden change of weather.
The Ministry's Joint Secretary Suresh Acharya insisted the urgency to keep a separate mechanism to regulate and check the flight accidents in the aviation sector.
In the wake of increasing air accidents in recent time, the Ministry has initiated works to warn the scrapping of licence of the pilot entering clouds in the name of showing courage even after seeing a looming danger.
Director General of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, Sanjiv Gautam, said that last efforts of the Authority were on to remove Nepal from the blacklist of the European Union that bans Nepali flights into EU member countries, citing security concerns.
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