I am a pilot, won’t tell pilot to try landing in poor visibility: Rahul

Lucknow A day after UP Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi told a gathering in Sitapur that AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi had asked his helicopter pilot to land in low visibility because he wanted to meet them, Gandhi said “I would be the last person to ask him to do such a thing” since “I am a pilot and know the dangers of flying in low visibility”.
Speaking to reporters in Lucknow, Gandhi said the pilot “came to me this morning, crying, and told me that such reports in the media had put him in trouble and would put his job at stake”. He said the “UPCC president is not a pilot... She is not a weather expert. The pilot has not broken any rule.”
Gandhi’s clarification on the Sitapur incident came even as the UP government lodged a protest with the Union Home Ministry on alleged violation of security norms by the Congress leader.
State Additional Cabinet Secretary V S Pandey said: “if any accident occurs due to violation of security norms, then the state government shall not be responsible... the Union government will be responsible for any untoward incident.”
09/12/09 Express India

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Dec 2009, Safety Dec 2009