Air India's incharge of pilots, executive director (operations), has been grounded for allegedly skipping the mandatory pre-flight breath analyser (BA) test this January.
This test is conducted to ensure that only perfectly sober pilots get into cockpits. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) directed AI late on Wednesday night to immediately ground (not put on flying duty) its ED (operations) who is also one of the airline's seniormost pilots, Captain A Kathpalia.
Based on the DGCA order, AI issued instructions to comply with the same. While top AI officials confirmed the grounding, the airline did not give a comment. It also did not tell the period of grounding. The regulatory action came on the basis of a probe by the airline.
AI had last Monday set up a panel to examine the complaint from a section of its pilots that the ED (operations) - who is overall incharge of pilots - flew by allegedly evading the mandatory pre-flight (BA) tests more than once. The complaint was made by the Indian Commercial Pilots' Association (ICPA, union of erstwhile Indian Airlines pilots).
09/02/17 Saurabh Sinha/The Times Of India
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This test is conducted to ensure that only perfectly sober pilots get into cockpits. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) directed AI late on Wednesday night to immediately ground (not put on flying duty) its ED (operations) who is also one of the airline's seniormost pilots, Captain A Kathpalia.
Based on the DGCA order, AI issued instructions to comply with the same. While top AI officials confirmed the grounding, the airline did not give a comment. It also did not tell the period of grounding. The regulatory action came on the basis of a probe by the airline.
AI had last Monday set up a panel to examine the complaint from a section of its pilots that the ED (operations) - who is overall incharge of pilots - flew by allegedly evading the mandatory pre-flight (BA) tests more than once. The complaint was made by the Indian Commercial Pilots' Association (ICPA, union of erstwhile Indian Airlines pilots).
09/02/17 Saurabh Sinha/The Times Of India
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