jstars2;
Satisfactory FAA audit of Air India completed in early 2010.
Thank you. That led me to do some research on the 'net.
IATA Safety Audit AI, 2006,
FAA Audit June 2009,
FAA Audit 2 September 2009
FAA approves IOSA Audits
I'm trying to square certain comments here with these recent reports. I'm not doubting comments on ATC as I've flown enough in India to have experienced their ATC's anomalies (and on-air arguments, one in which an aircraft argued that it was assigned its altitude first and wouldn't descend to avoid a traffic conflict - that "conflict" was
us!). But I can't square characterizations which depict a horrendous safety culture at AI with some of the documents linked to above.
I'm not disputing some of the claims here regarding punishment for reporting a safety issue, absence of safety monitoring programs and the effects of corruption. There are logically only a couple of explanations in the accounting. So far, what I'm reading is an enigma.
PJ2