New Delhi: Shockers from the Mumbai landing-sans-ATC-nod incident don't seem to end. It has now emerged that the captain — who was grounded by the directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA) on Friday afternoon for the unauthorized landing in Mumbai earlier that morning — operated yet another return flight from Mumbai a day later!
The blatant disregard of DGCA's grounding order happened when the captain operated a Mumbai-Bangalore-Mumbai (AI 603) flight on Saturday morning. The airline took him off flying duty only after he returned to Mumbai, when TOI had frontpaged the story on the incident and the fact that the pilots involved in that had been de-rostered.
A senior DGCA official said: "This is unacceptable and we will probe how did the airline let a grounded captain operate flights."
15/04/13 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
