Delay of international flight: ICPA blames senior AI officer

New Delhi: Pilots' body ICPA today blamed a senior officer of Air India's southern region for delaying an international flight by almost two hours after a co-pilot refused to fly with a commander on a union directive. With Air India launching an enquiry into the incident that occurred on Saturday, the Indian Commercial Pilots' Association (ICPA) shot off a letter to the airline's Southern India General Manager (Operations) blaming him for not utilising the services of pilots "available at the airport" to operate the flight on time. AI-937 Calicut-Dubai flight, carrying 169 passengers, was delayed after co-pilot Adarsh Kumar refused to fly with Capt Sandeep Marwah following an ICPA directive not to fly with him. Marwah was among two OSDs of former CMD Arvind Jadhav who were removed from their positions days after Rohit Nandan took over as Air India chief in August. Maintaining that another commander, Capt Sajee Khan, was present at the airport who could have operated the flight, the letter said even though top ICPA office-bearers had requested the general manager to use Khan's services for the purpose,
11/10/11 PTI/IBN Live

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