Repeat incidents where Air India’s pilots allowed unauthorised persons in the aircraft’s cockpit indicate that they are not learning and improving “due to complacency, carelessness or some other factor”, its Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director Campbell Wilson said on Friday.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Thursday suspended two pilots—a captain for one year and co-pilot for one month—for allowing an unauthorised person in the cockpit during the airline’s Chandigarh-Leh flight on June 3.
A similar incident had taken place on the airline’s Delhi-Dubai flight on February 27 when its captain had allowed a female friend in the plane’s cockpit.
