Dropping of poop mid-air: DGCA warned

If your favourite nightmare is being hit by poop that has been flushed out by an aircraft mid-air, then there is finally someone speaking on your behalf.

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has warned the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) that the tribunal will stop his salary if he fails to ensure that all airlines stop emptying their toilet waste mid-air by August 31.

The NGT is peeved at the DGCA’s "repeated defiance" in the matter and marked reluctance to issue circular to airlines operating at the IGI Airport.

The tribunal also warned that if there is "continued defiance" it may have to consider prosecution of the Director General on the next date.

During the hearing, the DGCA told the bench that the order has not been complied with because a review petition against the NGT's order was pending adjudication.

The DGCA has also claimed that it was impossible to dump human waste mid-air.

However, on October 2016, a Delhi resident, Lt Gen (retired) Satwant Singh Dahiya, had filed a case alleging that houses in his neighbourhood were splattered with faeces dumped by planes at night-time.

The tribunal had, then, on December 20, 2016, directed the DGCA to issue a circular to all airlines to pay Rs 50,000 as environmental compensation if their planes are found dumping waste mid-air.