Drop in air accident: Antony
New Delhi (PTI): Acknowledging that there has been marked drop in accident rates in the Indian Air Force, Defence Minister A K Antony on Wednesday told Air warriors to put in extra care that crash ratio was reduced further.
"There has been strenuous efforts put in by the IAF to reduce air accidents, but more can be done to drop it further," Antony said in his valedictory address to the International Flight Safety Conference attend by air experts from 30 countries.
He emphasised that with boom in aviation sector worldwide, airspace would get overcrowded making it imperative that special flying safety measures were thought of and implemented well in advance.
Antony said in future air traffic controllers would have to handle multi-tasking and for this, special training have to be imparted to all concerned.
On increasing demands for flexi use of air space, Antony said in future IAF would have to share airspace management as well as ground facilities to meet increasing demands from commercial travellers.
"What is needed is to strike a coordination and inter-operatability between civil and military aviation," he told the conference.
Admitting that there were "problems" between civil and military aviation, the Minister said "wherever there are problems we can sit together to sort these out".
Fifty-nine delegates from various nations participated in the two-day conference. However, representatives from DGCA and Airports Authority of India were conspicuous by their absence in the meet.
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