DGCA suspends flying licence of MP govt pilot for crash landing of plane at Gwalior airport
Aviation safety regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has suspended the flying licence of a senior pilot of the Madhya Pradesh government for a period of one year for the crash landing of an aircraft at Gwalior airport in May this year.
The plane was bringing supplies of Remdesivir, an antiviral drug, from Gujarat to Gwalior via Indore in the state-owned plane B-200GT VT MPQ when it crash-landed around 9 pm on May 6 at the Gwalior airport, which has an Air Force base.
The DGCA, which carried out a probe into the incident, has suspended the flying licence of the plane’s pilot, Captain Sayyed Majid Akhtar (56), for a year, as per a letter issued last week.
