Naval flight safety seminar held

A Naval Flight Safety Seminar was conducted at Naval Base here today under the aegis of Southern Naval Command.
Southern Naval Command Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Vice Admiral A R Karve inaugurated the seminar in which seven papers were presented.
The themes of the seminar were "Study of Best Practices of Civil and Advanced Foreign Military Aviation for Enhancing Flight Safety and Imperatives of Airspace Management in a Rapidly Integrating and Dense Air Environment", a Defence release said here.
The Vice Admiral said it was in Kochi that naval aviation took birth many decades ago and has since grown to be a force to reckon with.

The seminar was attended by senior officers of the Naval Air Arm including the commanding officers of all the air squadrons of the navy across the country.
Various aviation accidents and incidents of the Indian Navy, Indian Air Force and Indian Army were discussed in detail as case studies.
Indian Naval Air Squadron (INAS) 312, the squadron operating P8-I aircraft based at Arakkonam in Tamil Nadu was adjudged the best Air Squadron of the navy for the year 2016-17, while INAS 550 squadron based at Kochi operating the Dornier aircraft was adjudged the runners up.
INAS 318, the Dornier aircraft operating squadron at Port Blair was adjudged best frontline squdron in terms of flight safety, the release.