CAAB takes crash prog after US-Bangla plane crash

Civil Aviation Authorities, Bangladesh has taken a crash programme for the aviation operators and would extend its surveillance on them.
The initiative came in the wake of the March 12 crash of Bangladesh-registered US-Bangla plane in Kathmandu international airport which left 51 killed.
The crash programme will mainly focus on two issues — one would go for safety awareness while another is extended surveillance on the local operators.
‘We have informed the operation directors of the operators,’ said CAAB’s flight safety and regulations Wing Commander Chowdhury Zia-ul Kabir.
According to the CAAB headquarters, the passenger plane operators — Biman Bangladesh Airlines, Novo Air, US-Bangla Airlines and Regent Airways — already called for the safety awareness conference to be held at the headquarters on Monday.
Gradually, CAAB officials said that four cargo operators and eight helicopters operators would be called for the meeting. 
Apart from the safety awareness programme, CAAB will engage its 14 principal operation inspectors and 12 principal airworthiness inspectors for extended surveillance.
Bangladeshi operators witnessed a number of crashes mostly with the choppers, training and cargo but a handful number of deaths were reported. 
One of the officials at a private airlines said none such safety awareness programme were called in recent times, leading Novo Airlines to organise a safety conference to be held this week.
CAAB’s director Kabir said they usually called the operators in their office individually and asked them to rectify if there were any anomalies.
‘This time,’ he said, ‘we want them all.’
On January 16, a cargo operated by Bismillah Airlines Limited met a major accident at Jessore Airport without any causality. 
On September 16, 2016, a Robinson Helicopter R66, operated by Meghna Aviation at Inani Beach in Cox’s Bazar, leaving one killed and four others injured

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net