NEW DELHI : India’s aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has temporarily suspended the license of a pilot with the country’s largest domestic airline IndiGo for threatening and intimidating a senior citizen on a flight between Chennai and Bangalore during last month, the agency said in a statement.
DGCA had earlier issued a show cause notice to the pilot in command (PIC), who operated IndiGo flight 6E-806, flying between Chennai and Bangalore, on 13 January, the regulator said in the statement adding that the pilot has been suspended for a period of three months.
“After examining the reply of the PIC to the show cause notice it was established that the PIC’s attitude towards the wheelchair bound senior citizen passenger was intimidating , threatening and lacked compassion,” DGCA said in the statement.
