Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 November 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Irish Aviation Authority: Chairperson Designate

Mr. Diarmuid Ó Conghaile:

If I go back to the question of what were the recommendations from the AAIU for the IAA, there were five such recommendations. We fully accept those recommendations and we are in the process of implementing them. We can go into those in a little more detail.

The issue on the night in the cockpit, I would say, related fundamentally to a number of failings which were identified in the AAIU report. One of them related to the company route guides used. The second identified the fact that the EGPWS that Deputy Cathal Crowe referred to did not contain the obstacle and there were two other navigational sources that did not contain the obstacle.

There is no lacuna, as such, here. The IAA is responsible for the provision of State maps. It provides those maps for visual flight conditions. The aircraft has other navigational sources available to it. The providers of the kit and the providers of those maps are approved by EASA.

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