SpiceJet gives daughter of DGCA officer the boot

Mumbai: She damaged an aircraft propeller and nose gear in two separate landing incidents when she was undergoing training for a commercial pilot licence (CPL) in the US in 2008. At that time, Garima Passi was in the SpiceJet cadet training program and she could have joined the airline as a trainee co-pilot if she had completed her course successfully.
After these two incidents, the flying school monitored her progress and found that she was was a poor student who was "inconsistent in her flying". On recommedation from the school, SpiceJet terminated her from their program. She returned to the country and within a year earned a CPL from an Indian flying school. Then, in 2009, at a time when there were hundreds of jobless pilots in the market, Garima, who is the daughter of R S Passi, Director, Air Safety in the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), managed to get employed with SpiceJet as a trainee co-pilot.
On Thursday, she tendered her resignation. "Garima Passi had been suspended from flying while we awaited the full investigations to be concluded. This morning she has resigned from her job," said a Spice Jet spokesperson. It was the hullabaloo created by the fake pilot license racket that brought Passi's case too under the DGCA scanner.
25/03/11 Times of India

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