Logbook blew lid off pilot licence scam

Mumbai: Flying hours were jotted down on the register even on the day the training flight was grounded
While browsing through a logbook at a Rajasthan government-run aviation school, the Anti-Corruption Bureau of Rajasthan Police noticed that flying hours of the pilots were manipulated in the register to help them secure licences.
peaking exclusively to MiD DAY, the officials revealed the logbook blew the lid off the fake pilot licence scam.
Nine pilots have been arrested in this case so far and there is one common link between all of them the logbook.
The cops smelt a rat when they noticed the pilots' flying hours were registered even on the day the training aircraft was grounded.
"When we started investigations, we found that the flying school had made entry of flying hours with Cessna 152, when the training aircraft was actually grounded," said Umesh Mishra, IG Anti-Corruption Bureau.
Rajasthan Flying School has a single engine trainer aircraft, Cessna 152, which was grounded long ago.
Air India pilot Rahul Yadav was the first person arrested in this case.
25/03/11 Bipin Kumar Singh/MiD DAY

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Mar 2011