Low-cost carrier SpiceJet has grounded four of its pilots over the past week after they failed breath alcohol tests.
Sources said three of them are pilots in command and the other is a first officer.
As per the Directorate General of Civil Aviation’s rules, for the first such offence, pilots are grounded for three months. For a second offence, they can be grounded for three years, and for the third, their commercial pilot licence to fly could be suspended.
In an email to all pilots of the carrier, Capt Gurcharan Arora, SpiceJet’s chief of flight operations, warned that if pilots continue to test positive in breath analyser tests, the airline could take a “more severe” punitive action. “The fact that there are four events in a span of a week is clearly indicative that some pilots do not understand the gravity or implication of being tested positive for alcohol,” read his email.
06/12/19 Satish Nandgaonkar/Mumbai Mirror
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Sources said three of them are pilots in command and the other is a first officer.
As per the Directorate General of Civil Aviation’s rules, for the first such offence, pilots are grounded for three months. For a second offence, they can be grounded for three years, and for the third, their commercial pilot licence to fly could be suspended.
In an email to all pilots of the carrier, Capt Gurcharan Arora, SpiceJet’s chief of flight operations, warned that if pilots continue to test positive in breath analyser tests, the airline could take a “more severe” punitive action. “The fact that there are four events in a span of a week is clearly indicative that some pilots do not understand the gravity or implication of being tested positive for alcohol,” read his email.
06/12/19 Satish Nandgaonkar/Mumbai Mirror
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