Under pressureThe DGCA was under pressure, especially from political leaders, to give approval to the operation of wide-bodied aircraft. The operation of wide-bodied aircraft was banned from May 2015 in the wake of the Court of Inquiry report on the Air India Express Boeing 737 crash in Mangaluru in May 2010. “We have submitted an assessment report on the safety parameters and we are awaiting a decision in a week,” Airport Director J.T. However, increasing the runway strip requires acquisition of additional land. Pressure is said to be mounting on the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to resume the operation of wide-bodied aircraft at the Calicut airport after the Airports Authority of India (AAI) gave a favourable report to the Ministry of Civil Aviation.
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