Global body conducts safety audit of IGI Airport

New Delhi: An International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) team of experts conducted a safety audit of the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport on Monday.
The report of the audit, which is done under ICAO's "Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme", will be submitted within a fortnight. This is the first time that the ICAO is doing such a comprehensive safety audit in India.
The ICAO team is conducting a ten-day-long safety audit of India's Director-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). The audit will end on October 19.
The team, accompanied by several DGCA and Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) officials spent five hours at the Delhi airport before leaving for Mumbai.
One member of the team, assisted by a senior DGCA official surveyed the aerodrome. The other three checked the Air Traffic Controller's (ATC) tower.
16/10/09 Archis Mohan/Hindustan Times

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