Pilots want MP to say sorry, write to PM

New Delhi: The pilot community and Air India have thrown their weight behind Captain Rajat Rana, who offloaded Abdul Wahab for boarding a Dubai-bound flight late in the Kozhikode airport on Monday. The airline is unlikely to take any action against Rana, as "he did nothing wrong", the pilots' association wrote letters to the Prime Minister, the aviation minister and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, sources said.
"We have written exactly what happened on that flight, which forced the pilot to offload the passengers. We have also written that luminaries like JRD Tata and Rajiv Gandhi were pilots associated with the national carriers, and
how the passengers have insulted the entire community by calling them 'glorified drivers'," said Vikram Yadav, Indian Commercial Pilots' Association (ICPA) general secretary. ICPA, an association of pilots of erstwhile Indian Airlines, has also got support from pilots of other carriers, too.
10/04/08 Times of India

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