Mumbai: Capt Pankaj Anand, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) inspector whose wife and sister-in-law took a joyride on board a charter flight where he flew as an examiner, has resigned.
Capt Anand, a deputy chief flight operations inspector (DyCFOI) with the DGCA had carried out an "examiner release check"+ on two pilots of a Delhi-based charter company, even as in the passenger cabin his family members partied with the director of the said charter company and his wife. The DGCA initiated an investigation into the incident after the Times of India carried a report on December 11, exposing the happenings on board the Delhi-Amritsar-Delhi flight, along with a photograph that showed the women in aircraft passenger cabin holding bottles of wine. Alcohol consumption is banned by the DGCA on domestic flights.
"Capt Anand was forced to resign. He was reluctant to put in his papers, he argued that other DGCA officials too have taken favours from charter aircraft operators in the past. But the director-general of civil aviation stood his ground," said the DGCA source. Capt Anand was on leave when he received a call from the director general on Monday demanding that he resign, the source said. "He vacated his DGCA office today afternoon," the source added. A DyCFOI is second only to the chief flight operations inspector in the flight standard directorate of the DGCA.
The said "irregular check" took place on December 4, on board a Pilatus aircraft operated by Delhi-based aircraft charter company Air Charter Services Ltd. The flight was operated to allow the two pilots employed with this charter company to clear their "examiner release check" which was carried out by the DGCA DyCFOI, Capt Anand.
19/12/18 Manju V/Times of India
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Capt Anand, a deputy chief flight operations inspector (DyCFOI) with the DGCA had carried out an "examiner release check"+ on two pilots of a Delhi-based charter company, even as in the passenger cabin his family members partied with the director of the said charter company and his wife. The DGCA initiated an investigation into the incident after the Times of India carried a report on December 11, exposing the happenings on board the Delhi-Amritsar-Delhi flight, along with a photograph that showed the women in aircraft passenger cabin holding bottles of wine. Alcohol consumption is banned by the DGCA on domestic flights.
"Capt Anand was forced to resign. He was reluctant to put in his papers, he argued that other DGCA officials too have taken favours from charter aircraft operators in the past. But the director-general of civil aviation stood his ground," said the DGCA source. Capt Anand was on leave when he received a call from the director general on Monday demanding that he resign, the source said. "He vacated his DGCA office today afternoon," the source added. A DyCFOI is second only to the chief flight operations inspector in the flight standard directorate of the DGCA.
The said "irregular check" took place on December 4, on board a Pilatus aircraft operated by Delhi-based aircraft charter company Air Charter Services Ltd. The flight was operated to allow the two pilots employed with this charter company to clear their "examiner release check" which was carried out by the DGCA DyCFOI, Capt Anand.
19/12/18 Manju V/Times of India
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