IATA assessing operational safety at flag carrier LAM
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is assessing compliance of the operational safety requirements of Mozambique Airlines (LAM), an official source has announced.
“There are five auditors here mandated by IATA. They have already been to our simulators and are currently interviewing us one by one to determine where we stand,” said João Jorge, director-general of LAM, speaking to Mozambican television station Televisão de Moçambique on Wednesday.
According to Jorge, the audit will assess compliance with over 1,200 requirements of the Operational Safety Certificate (IOSA) for its renewal, which is done every two years. The audit, the director general said, should result in the validation of eight safety sections, including flight operations, operational control and flight dispatch, aircraft engineering and maintenance, cabin operations, cargo operations and safety management.
LAM has already obtained the IOSA certificate seven consecutive times, the first time in 2007. In June, a problem in one of the front windows of a LAM aircraft caused the aircraft to return to its airport of origin, Pemba, in northern Mozambique, during flight TM315 to Maputo, the authorities announced at the time.
Another LAM aircraft skidded in February when it landed at 14:40 at Quelimane airport in Zambezia, from Maputo, with 92 passengers on board, in an incident that caused no injuries.
