Wednesday, April 20, 2011

She failed US test but became pilot in India because of daddy's influence...


As a crackdown began to corner those involved in getting pilots' licences by fudging records, a top officer of the aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) was relieved of his duties following charges that he had influenced an airline to employ his daughter who had failed a pilot test.

Apart from DGCA's Director (Air Safety) R S Passi was stripped off his responsibilities following the allegations, there are at least nine more middle and senior level staffers who have been issued show-cause notices.

They have been asked to explain how their close relatives had received pilot licences, highly-placed sources in the DGCA said, adding that all these people would be subjected to scrutiny. More...

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