Intimidating phrases like 'thok doonga' or 'maar doonga' may be common in our daily life but they led an Air India pilot to be grounded recently. He threatened a ground engineer with 'plane chadha doonga' unless he cleared the aircraft for take off soon! This unprecedented exchange took place late last year in Mumbai when the captain was in the cockpit and waiting for ground engineers to complete their pre-flight checks so that the Airbus A-320 could begin taxiing and take off for Bengaluru.
"The captain was in a hurry to take off for some reason and said those words to the ground engineer. The engineers immediately completed their checks and removed chocks-wooden blocks kept in front and rear of tyres," said a source.
As soon as the plane took off, the engineers lodged a formal complaint about the pilot's behaviour with their own and AI's flight safety department (FSD). The moment the plane landed in Bengaluru, the FSD ordered that the content of the cockpit voice recorder be downloaded. "This exchange took place a few months back. We went through the recording and took a very serious note of that threat, irrespective of whether it was made in jest or anger. The pilot was taken off flying duties for about a month. During that time he was made to undergo counselling that included anger management," said a senior AI official.
21/01/17 Saurabh Sinha/The Times Of India
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"The captain was in a hurry to take off for some reason and said those words to the ground engineer. The engineers immediately completed their checks and removed chocks-wooden blocks kept in front and rear of tyres," said a source.
As soon as the plane took off, the engineers lodged a formal complaint about the pilot's behaviour with their own and AI's flight safety department (FSD). The moment the plane landed in Bengaluru, the FSD ordered that the content of the cockpit voice recorder be downloaded. "This exchange took place a few months back. We went through the recording and took a very serious note of that threat, irrespective of whether it was made in jest or anger. The pilot was taken off flying duties for about a month. During that time he was made to undergo counselling that included anger management," said a senior AI official.
21/01/17 Saurabh Sinha/The Times Of India
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