Shorthand Dictation 80 Words per minute with outline, 5 Minute Test 46

Exactly that is my problem. The reason for grounding the fleet was not one accident outside Bangalore which happened ²⁰ on 14^th of February. It was most unfortunate; it was most tragic. I reached there almost within 3 hours of the ⁴⁰ accident. So. Whatever I saw personally it was most traumatic. I do not want to go into those details. But ⁶⁰ I would say that, despite the tragedy. I alone was not responsible for grounding the fleet. Subsequently, for three days, there ⁸⁰ was a report of some major snag developed. Then this was deboarded; and after the snag was rectified, the passengers ¹⁰⁰ refused to go back into the plane. We felt that somewhere a doubt had come in the mind of the ¹²⁰ travelling public. First we must take steps to remove the doubt. If we did not remove those doubts and apprehensions, ¹⁴⁰ even if we kept operating these planes, it would become useless. In fact, F I would like to make it clear ¹⁶⁰ that it was not a tragically of 14^th February because of which we immediately took a decision to ground the ¹⁸⁰ fleet; no, this decision we took four days later.

Every one of us must have seen those reports which appeared ²⁰⁰ in the Press; and somehow, this doubt developed in the mind of the travelling public. I know the difficulty to ²²⁰ which the travelling public had been subjected to as a result of this decision to ground the fleet. After all, ²⁴⁰ it concers all air-buses having 14 years of life. But we had no other alternative; and today, even if ²⁶⁰ we go for the arrangement which the Hon’ble Members have mentioned it will take some time. So, let us we study ²⁸⁸⁰ various options which are available to us as I said, we have made the report available to the Commercial Pilots ³⁰⁰ Association also; and as I requested earlier, I would again like to request the Hon’ble Members that we should ³²⁰ make a differentiation. If any irregularity has been committed, as far as the deal is concerned, that is a question ³⁴⁰ which is independent of the air worthiness of safety aspect of the Airlines or of the aircraft.

As far as ³⁶⁰ air worthiness is concerned, it is not a question which will be decided by one committee which is appointed today. ³⁸⁰ We have a whole organization. Basically, Shri Harish Rawat wanted to know from me whether we have any organization like ⁴⁰⁰ the Federal Aviation Authority.