Authorities at the Combat Army Aviation Training School (CATS) in Gandhinagar in Maharashtra’s Nashik have lodged a complaint with police after a drone was spotted for a brief while above the sprawling campus before disappearing, an official said on Sunday. The drone was spotted over the campus along the Nashik-Pune Highway at around 10pm on […]
Category: Civil Aviation
Drunk man makes hoax bomb threat to Dubai-bound flight, lands in police net
An inebriated man who wanted to prevent his family members from travelling out of the country on Saturday made a hoax bomb threat to a Dubai-bound private carrier, only to land in the police net. The city resident wanted to prevent two of his family members from flying to Dubai and made the threat call […]
DGCA removes pilot from flight duty due to drug test fail
A pilot of a prominent airline has been removed from flight duty after he failed a drug test, a senior DGCA official said on Friday. He is the fourth pilot to fail the drug test since the procedure for examination of aviation personnel for consumption of psychoactive substances came into effect from January 31. The […]
Cash-strapped SpiceJet scouting for funds, investors
Cash-strapped SpiceJet is exploring multiple options including a stake sale to other airlines to raise up to Rs 2,000 crore, chairman-cum-managing director of the airline Ajay Singh said on Tuesday. Singh said the airline was looking at investments from external parties, including airlines. Without divulging specific details, he said the carrier would do everything to […]
SpiceJet scouting for funds from airlines, external parties: chief Ajay Singh
SpiceJet is looking for investments from external parties, including airlines, and also plans to add seven more Boeing planes to its fleet, the carrier’s chief Ajay Singh said on Tuesday. In recent times, SpiceJet has faced turbulence — especially with many of its flights suffering technical snags — and subsequently, the airline has faced actions […]
Air Traffic Controller tests positive for psychoactive substance
An Air Traffic Controller at the Delhi airport has tested positive for a psychoactive substance and has been removed from duty by the aviation regulator DGCA, sources said on Sunday. This is the first instance in the country of an Air Traffic Controller (ATC) testing positive for a psychoactive substance after the rules for testing […]
Smoke alarm: IndiGo flight makes emergency landing in Calcutta
An IndiGo flight from Delhi to Kolkata suffered a “false cargo smoke warning” before landing on Sunday and aviation regulator DGCA will probe the incident. The flight carrying more than 160 people landed safely at the Calcutta airport. After arrival at the airport, inspections were carried out in the Airbus aircraft and the “warning was […]
DGCA suspends SpiceJet pilot for ignoring co-pilot’s input
Aviation regulator DGCA has suspended the licence of a SpiceJet pilot for six months following an incident where the airline’s flight from Mumbai to Durgapur faced severe turbulence and resulted in injuries to many passengers in May. In the incident that happened on May 1, as many as14 passengers and three cabin crew members were […]
Arunachal: Donyi Polo Airport inauguration deferred to October
“Inauguration of the newly constructed Donyi Polo Airport at Hollongi near Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh has been postponed till October due to non-receipt of flight schedule from the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA),” state Civil Aviation Minister Nakap Nalo said. The airport was scheduled to be inaugurated on August 15 to mark India’s 75th […]
SpiceJet, Kalanithi Maran seek mediation
The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would consider a joint request for mediation between low-cost airline SpiceJet and media baron Kalanithi Maran and his KAL Airways. Kal Airways and Ajay Singh-promoted SpiceJet are locked in a bitter dispute over the failure of SpiceJet to issue certain warrants and non-convertible redeemable cumulative preference shares (CRPS) […]
IndiGo flight delayed by 6 hours over ‘bomber’ message
An IndiGo Mangaluru-Mumbai flight was delayed by around six hours after a female flyer found a male fellow passenger exchanging text messages with someone, wherein he was referred to as a “bomber”, sources said on Monday. As the passengers were boarding the plane at Mangaluru airport on Sunday, the female passenger peered into the male […]
Bodybuilder smokes inside SpiceJet plane, Scindia orders probe
Aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday ordered an investigation after a video purportedly showing a bodybuilder smoking on a SpiceJet flight surfaced on social media. The video shows Bobby Kataria, who has 6.3 lakh followers on Instagram, purportedly lighting a cigarette on one of the back rows of a SpiceJet plane. Passengers are not allowed […]