DGCA transfers two senior officials over allegations of corruption

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Friday transferred two senior officials — the Director of Flying Training and a Senior Flight Operations Inspector in the Flight Standards Department — due to allegations of corruption, according to sources familiar with the development.

The regulator’s action comes four days after suspending operations at Redbird Flight Training Academy, one of India’s largest flight training centres, across all its five training bases in the country. The suspension was imposed because the academy’s aircraft were involved in five accidents in the past six months.