In order to ensure that medically fit crew members are available in flights, Indian Civil Aviation has issued new guidelines for medical fitness of cabinet crew.

New Delhi, May 6/Nationalturk – Indian Civil Aviation has issued new guidelines for medical fitness of cabinet crew.

India’s Director General Civil Aviation (DGCA) has for the first time issued Civil Aviation Requirements (CAR) for medical examination of the cabin crew.

The CAR prescribes the requirement of body mass index (BMI) and rules for disposal of high BMI cases in terms of overweight and obese cabin crew.

The requirements have been issued under the provisions of Rule 38B of Aircrafts Rule 1937 which state that cabin crew must remain medically fit to discharge duties in inflight operations including aircraft emergency as specified in the Operations Manual.

Taking into consideration the ageing process and requirement of agility to perform cabin safety duty efficiently, frequency of medical examinations for the cabin crew has been prescribed.

Crew members will have to undergo medical examination

As per the guidelines, crew members will have to under medical examination once every four years till the age of 40 years. “From 40-50, the crew members will have to undergo medical examination once every two years. However, after attaining 50-years of age, the crew members will have to undergo yearly medical examination”.

Based on the medical report, the cabin crew shall be categorised as fit, temporary unfit and permanent unfit.

The CAR has prescribed guidelines for disposal of cases of temporary unfit cabin crew and also the permanent unfit cabin crew.

“The Civil Aviation Requirements have been issued after extensive consultations with stakeholders and has become effective immediately,” an official of Civil Aviation Ministry said.

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