BENGALURU, July 28 (Reuters) – India’s aviation regulator discovered deficiencies in Indigo Airlines’ documentation and operations in a particular audit after a sequence of tail strike incidents on the provider’s A321 plane this yr, the civil aviation ministry mentioned on Friday.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has fined IndiGo 3 million rupees ($36,475) for deficiencies within the provider’s documentation and procedures of operations coaching, engineering and flight information monitoring, the ministry mentioned.

Indigo’s response to the regulator’s present trigger discover was reviewed at varied ranges within the authorities and located to be unsatisfactory, the ministry mentioned.

Indigo plane have skilled as many as 4 tail strike incidents within the first six months of this yr.

The DGCA has directed Interglobe Aviation (INGL.NS), which operates IndiGo, to amend its paperwork and procedures in keeping with regulatory necessities.
($1 = 82.2489 Indian rupees)

Reporting by Sethuraman NR and Biplob Kumar Das in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D’Souza

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