NEW DELHI: Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has rejected an appeal by Air India’s pilot against its decision in January to suspend his licence following an incident in which a man in an inebriated condition allegedly urinated on a 70-year-old woman co-passenger, people familiar with the matter said.
“The pilot said that he did not report the matter as he did not consider it to be an unruly act. However, the DGCA feels that the incident should have been reported in any case,” a civil aviation ministry official said.
On January 20, the regulator imposed a ₹30 lakh fine on Air India and suspended the licence of the pilot-in-command for three months over the incident on a New York-Delhi flight on November 26 last year.
