New Delhi: The surge of TikTok videos filmed by airline crew, often mid-flight and at times in the cockpit, has caught the Directorate General of Civil Aviation’s attention and the regulator is not pleased.
As yet another TikTok video of a crew member “modelling” down the aisle of an aircraft went viral Monday, a senior DGCA official told ThePrint that the trend was “not desirable at all”.
“We have checked those videos,” the official added. “This not desirable at all and we will counsel them all on this.”
TikTok is a social media app where users can film short videos that involve lip-sync to dialogues and lyrics, or other antics. It enjoys viral popularity, and has over 500 million downloads on the Google Play Store alone.
Airline crew seem to have caught on to the trend as well, filming videos displaying all manner of antics, be it dancing to Bollywood numbers, or giving followers a view from the cockpit.
Under hashtags such as “#Pilotslife”, “#crewlife”, and “#flightattendant”, there are hundreds of videos on TikTok showing airline crew with babies on board, chatting with fellow crew members, and even shutting the exit door of the aircraft.
Among Indian airlines, the staff of SpiceJet — as in the ramp walk video — and IndiGo are most commonly seen in the videos.
The DGCA is frowning upon these videos because airline crew are not allowed to take photographs during any phase of flight. A 2011 DGCA circular on managing “Disruptions and Distractions” said photography during flight was a source of distraction that may lead to error and reduce safety.
16/09/19 Ifrah Mufti/Print
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As yet another TikTok video of a crew member “modelling” down the aisle of an aircraft went viral Monday, a senior DGCA official told ThePrint that the trend was “not desirable at all”.
“We have checked those videos,” the official added. “This not desirable at all and we will counsel them all on this.”
TikTok is a social media app where users can film short videos that involve lip-sync to dialogues and lyrics, or other antics. It enjoys viral popularity, and has over 500 million downloads on the Google Play Store alone.
Airline crew seem to have caught on to the trend as well, filming videos displaying all manner of antics, be it dancing to Bollywood numbers, or giving followers a view from the cockpit.
Under hashtags such as “#Pilotslife”, “#crewlife”, and “#flightattendant”, there are hundreds of videos on TikTok showing airline crew with babies on board, chatting with fellow crew members, and even shutting the exit door of the aircraft.
Among Indian airlines, the staff of SpiceJet — as in the ramp walk video — and IndiGo are most commonly seen in the videos.
The DGCA is frowning upon these videos because airline crew are not allowed to take photographs during any phase of flight. A 2011 DGCA circular on managing “Disruptions and Distractions” said photography during flight was a source of distraction that may lead to error and reduce safety.
16/09/19 Ifrah Mufti/Print
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