Air India crash: Aviation chief defends safety record

India’s skies remain safe, with accident rates below global averages, air safety regulator chief tells the BBC.
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It's a question many are asking after June's devastating Air India crash, which killed at least 270 people. The London-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner went down less than a minute after taking off from Ahmedabad airport in western India on 12 June.
"India's skies have always been safe - in the past and even today," said Faiz Ahmed Kidwai, the chief of Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) - India's aviation safety regulator - in an interview with the BBC.
"If you look at global safety metrics, such as those published by International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which track the number of accidents per million flights, India consistently performs better than the world average," he said.
"There were only two years within the 2010–2024 period where we exceeded the global average - those were the years when major accidents occurred."
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