Eight more fake pilots to be arrested

Jaipur/Mumbai: The story of fake pilots and phantom flying schools is getting scarier. It's turning out to be much more than just a one off case or at best a few.
Two days after two fake pilots employed with spice jet were arrested for foraged flying hours from the government-run Rajasthan Flying School, CNN-IBN has accessed names of eight more pilots, who are still flying and could soon be arrested.
Also for the first time an engineer from Air India could also be arrested.
Rajasthan anti corruption bureau says there could be more pilots waiting to be exposed.
Against a question, if the finding so far in the issue is the tip of the iceberg, Jaipur ACB ADG Ajit Singh said, "Tip of the iceberg or not, but certainly there could be many more such cases".
CNN-IBN spoke to sources in airline, aviation and police officials to get the names of the suspect pilots.
The list of the accused includes, Nitin Jain and Rajesh Mirani from Jetlite and Rakesh Mehta, an Engineer from Air India.
Other commercial pilots who are on the wanted list are Sanjiv Gupta and Manlini Iyer from Bangalore, as well as Saahil Malik, Nidhi Vashishtha and Sumit Jain. It is not known where they are currently employed.
The anti corruption bureau has written to the CBI to look into the DGCA's role into the scam. Other flying schools are also being probed.
23/03/11 Swati Vashishtha/Raksha Shetty/CNN-IBN

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Mar 2011