ගෝල්ඩන් කී කාමන් පෙරේරාගේ සොහොයුරු ශ්‍රී ලංකන් ගුවන් සේවයේ Druvi Perera ටත් වැඩ වරදින ලකුණු

(www.randora.lk-15/04/15)- ජේ.සී වැලි අමුණ වාර්තා ප්‍රකාරව ශ්‍රී ලංකන් ගුවන් සේවයේ චෝදනා එල්ල වි ඇති ප්‍රධාන මෙහෙයුම් නිළධාරි කපිතාන් Druvi Pereraවහා සේවයෙන් ඉවත් කරන්න යැයි බලධාරින්ගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටිමට කටයුතු කරන බව ශ්‍රී ලංකන් ගුවන්සේවයේ ගුවන් නියමුවන්ගේ සංගමය කියයි.

මෙම Druvi Pereraයනු හිටපු හමුදාපති ඩෙනිස් පෙරේරාගේ පුත්‍රයෙකි.මොහුගේ සොහොයුරු කාමන් පෙරේරා සෙලින්කෝ පාලන සමයේ ගෝල්ඩන් කී ක්‍රෙඩ්ට් සමාගමේ ප්‍රධාන විධායක නිළධාරි ධුරය දරමින් එය කඩා වැටිමට මුල් වු ප්‍රධාන පුද්ගලයා බවට චෝදනා ඇති තැනැත්තාය.


ශ්‍රී ලංකන් ගුවන් සේවයේ දුෂන වංචා සම්බන්ධයෙන් පසුගියදා නිකුත් වු වැලි අමුණ වාර්තාවේ දැක් වුයේ මොහු ගුවන් නියමුවෙකි වශයෙන් පමනක් නොව පරිපාලකයෙකු වශයෙන්ද නුසුදුසු පුද්ගලයෙකු බවයි.


2008 මදුරාසි ගුවන්තොටේ සිදු වු සිද්ධියක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් හෙතෙම මෙම නුසුදුසු කම ලබා ඇත.

(i) Incident took place on 30th October 2008 where the aircraft outboard wheels had over run the runway edge lights;

(ii) As a result, 4 left main wheel tires had been damaged;

(iii) The aircraft moved 700 meters over running 12 runway edge lights and 12 runway edge lights were damaged.

(iv) Aircraft had landed in a crab angle with the nose pointing to right and the pitch rate was high at landing.
(v) The aircraft was flown by the First Officer who was on training.

(vi) The visibility was 300 meters and the airport had experienced heavy rain.


The Civil Aviation Authority found that:


(i) No attempt was made to align the aircraft with the runway, using the cross wing landing technique just before the plane touched ground;

(ii) The Instructor pilot should have taken over the control at the correct time or the crew should have initiated a ‘go around;’


(iii) The probable cause as identifies by the Civil Aviation Authority was the lack of good judgement of the Instructor Pilot who was in command allowing the trainee First Officer to continue the aircraft landing under bad weather conditions.

(iv) It was also found that the trainee First Officer had used improper landing techniques.



We observed that information pertaining to this incident and the disciplinary actions taken are not found in the personal file of Druvi Perera. Druvi Perera admitted that there were no disciplinary action taken against him in respect of this incident, except to take him away from the Instructor Pilot duties on the direction of the Civil Aviation.




The Bol notes that Druvi Perera was appointed on 25th November 2009 as Simulator Instructor and his appointment as Head of Flight Operations has been extended w.e.f. 15th September 2008. ON 23rd July 2012, he was appointed as COO (Grade 13), a position designed anew.




Perera had compromised professional standards of pilots. Under the topic – Attempt to lower pass marks of the simulator test for cadet pilots:



The 2013 Cadet Pilot intake drew attention due to the resignation of the Chief Pilot (Training & Standards – T & S) Capt. Patrick Fernando and Deputy Chief Pilot (T & S) Ranga Amadoru.
The issue involved was in relation to the pass mark required to pass the simulator evaluation examination that was fixed at 70 marks.




While the evaluation marks were being considered, there had been ‘an external pressure’ directed through the Chairman, towards the Chief Pilot T/S & Deputy Chief Pilot T/S, to reduce the pass mark to 65, in order to accommodate a few identified individuals. The Chairman’s directive to reduce the pass mark may have emanated from certain political sources.



Neither the CEO nor the COO (together with the HHR), who had the main responsibility to prevent any undue influence or interference with the selection process of pilots, did anything meaningful to prevent such interference.
Capt. Fernando and Capt. Amadoru refused to act on the Chairman’s direction and resigned from their position of Chief Pilot T& S and Deputy Pilot T & S respectively, thereby not compromising professional standards.



Their resignation effectively prevented the selection of unsuitable candidates in the 2013 Cadet Pilot intake. In view of their bold stand taken to protect professional standards, Bol recommends that they be commended.



Representations were made by a Committee comprising former CEO Manoj Gunawardena, COO Druvi Perera and Pulasthi Jayasinghe that the GoSL had issued a directive to re-launch the Air Taxi Operation and that the purported directive also purportedly intimated that the Air Taxi Operation must be launched by December 2010.