DGCA issues restriction on entry into plane’s cockpit

New Delhi: India’s civil aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday issued an order restricting the entry of people into ‘an aircraft’s cockpit during the flight time.’

In the new order, the DGCA said that “no person shall enter the cockpit and occupy the jump seat” during flight time unless they are crew members or “an officer of the Civil Aviation Department of India Meteorological Department, authorized by the DGCA to perform official duties”.

The regulator said that the decision was taken for “the purpose of security of aircraft operations”.