DGCA suspends pilot for 3 months for wrongly transmitting hijack code
NEW DELHI: Aviation regulator DGCA Friday suspended an AirAsia India pilot for a period of three months for erroneously transmitting the ‘hijack code’ to the Air Traffic ServicesNSE -0.58 % during a Delhi-Srinagar flight on June 9, sources said.
“As one of the engines had stalled at this I5-715 flight of AirAsia India, first officer (pilot) Capt Ravi Raj was supposed to transmit the emergency code 7700 to Air Traffic Services (ATS) authorities. Instead, he erroneously ‘squawked’ the hijack code 7500 to the ATS,” the sources told PTI
