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UN's ICAO to conduct another audit of India's air safety readiness

Global aviation watchdog's audit comes in the aftermath of Air India Express crash in Calicut which claimed 20 lives

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“We changed the system and now DGCA has almost completed licensing all 2,500 ATCO officials,” the official said.

Arindam Majumdar New Delhi
The UN's aviation watchdog International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has decided to conduct another safety audit of India’s air safety readiness.

The audit, which was pre-planned, assumes significance as it comes in the aftermath of the Air India Express crash in which 20 people were killed, including the pilot and the co-pilot, and several others were injured when the flight from Dubai with 190 people onboard overshot the runway at Calicut airport and fell into a valley.

“An ICAO team was supposed to come for an audit in November, but due to the Covid-19 pandemic and border closures, the audit