Seven CAAV teams set up to keep special watch over Vietjet Air
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has set up seven teams to keep special watch over the budget carrier Vietjet Air from December 28, 2018 to January 15, 2019.
Vietjet Air aircraft - Illustrative image (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has set up seven teams tokeep special watch over the budget carrier Vietjet Air from December 28, 2018to January 15, 2019.
The teams will beresponsible for both ground and in-flight examinations that cover all aspectsof the airline’s operation. They will check Vietjet Air’s fleet of aircraft andin-flight operation, and examine how the carrier prepares and plans for eachflight.
The teams willalso supervise the airline’s ground services and inspect how it maintains sufficientpersonnel for aircraft maintenance, conducts flight training for the pilots andensures in-flight safety.
After January 15,if Vietjet Air passes all required checks and meets all requirements for flightsafety, the supervision will be removed. Otherwise, the CAAV will extend thesupervision to the second phase, according to CAAV Director Dinh Viet Thang.
The authority willalso develop a backup plan for passenger transportation during the upcoming Tetholiday (traditional lunar New Year) in case Vietjet Air is not allowed toincrease holiday flights.
According to theMinistry of Transport, there have been seven aviation incidents involvingVietjet Air in only the final quarter of 2018, five of which were due to technicalproblems while errors by its staff were blamed for the rest.
On November 29, FlightVJ356 of Vietjet Air from Ho Chi Minh City encountered a late-night landing problemat Buon Ma Thuot Airport. Its nose wheels remained in place after touching therunway, but later they burst while the aircraft was still moving. The planemanaged to come to a safe halt and the cabin crew help all the 207 passengersget out to safety. Some passengers suffered from minor injuries.
In the mostrecently incident, the plane performing Flight VJ689 landed in a wrong runway at Cam Ranh International Airportin the south-central province of Khanh Hoa at noon December 25. –VNA
A Viejet Air flight from Incheon, the Republic of Korea, to Ho Chi Minh City made an emergency landing in Taipei (Taiwan, China) on December 24 because of a technical warning.
The Ministry of Transport has ordered an urgent investigation into the latest incident at Vietjet Air when flight VJ689 of the budget carrier landed in a wrong runway at Cam Ranh International Airport in the south central province of Khanh Hoa at noon December 25.
The Ministry of Transport (MoT) has assigned the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) to clarify the cause of the latest incident at Vietjet Air when Flight VJ513 of the budget carrier from Noi Bai International Airport to Da Nang on December 26 faced a technical error.
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Vietjet Air aircraft - Illustrative image (Source: VNA) 
