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Nepal Hiring Experts In Air Safety
By KTM Metro Reporter
December 18, 2013: the aviation regulator in Nepal has announced to hire a team of experts in a bid to inspect the safety situation during the flight operation in the country, officials said yesterday, according to the Xinhua news.
It is an attempt to get Nepal out of the European Union blacklist for flying its aircrafts. Veteran pilots will be on the team to inspect the air safety situation during the flight operation of both state and private-owned aircrafts. The group will also audit the air safety regulations adopted by Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN).
"We are preparing a terms of reference for the purpose," CAAN director general Satish Chandra Lal Suman told Xinhua, He said that the team would study the operational air safety situation for three months and then would submit a report on the necessary improvement measures to be initiated.
CAAN officials said even before the formal announcement of the plan, more than half a dozen foreign companies have expressed interests to dispatch their expert teams to Nepal. CAAN officials said that the air safety was one of the major areas the EU has pointed out that the improvement would help Nepal to get out of the blacklist.
Since the EC banned all Nepali airlines from entering the European skies in the first week of December, the government of Nepal has been preparing to improve the air safety situation in the country.
