New Delhi: The clean-up forced by America's recent downgrade of Indian aviation safety ranking now threatens to expose hidden skeletons in airlines' cupboards.
A senior Air India commander has been found teaching trainee pilots how to fly the Airbus A-330 for years - without being certified as an instructor-examiner by the directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA)! He unauthorizedly took simulator classes and performed route checks on real flights.
The downgraded aviation regulator discovered this fact recently. Joint DGCA Lalit Gupta on Monday ordered a probe into this serious safety oversight and suspended the 'Munnabhai' trainer's pilot licence which means he can't even fly a plane. Now a serious question mark hangs on the fate of the trainee pilots who were taught to fly the A-330 by this commander.
05/02/14 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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A senior Air India commander has been found teaching trainee pilots how to fly the Airbus A-330 for years - without being certified as an instructor-examiner by the directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA)! He unauthorizedly took simulator classes and performed route checks on real flights.
The downgraded aviation regulator discovered this fact recently. Joint DGCA Lalit Gupta on Monday ordered a probe into this serious safety oversight and suspended the 'Munnabhai' trainer's pilot licence which means he can't even fly a plane. Now a serious question mark hangs on the fate of the trainee pilots who were taught to fly the A-330 by this commander.
05/02/14 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
