Expat pilot grounded for hiding 'incident'

New Delhi: Jet Airways' expat pilots are in news these days for all the wrong reasons. At a time when the Naresh Goyal-led airline's Indian
pilots are up in arms over higher salaries to their foreign co-workers, the DGCA has grounded an expat pilot from flying. The reason being, the pilot failed to report to authorities an incident while landing in Mumbai last month.
The expat pilot's plane went off the runway into kutcha (grassland) and then came back on track, damaging a tyre and a runway light, and the incident only came to light after the Mumbai International Airport Pvt Ltd (MIAL) brought it to the regulator's notice.
"We then found that this incident had happened with an Airbus A-330 of Jet Airways that had landed in Mumbai from Singapore. We have penalized the engineer and grounded the expat pilot," DGCA official.
05/11/08 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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