{"id":272297,"date":"2019-05-01T07:18:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T07:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=272297"},"modified":"2019-05-01T07:21:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T07:21:35","slug":"controversial-air-india%e2%80%89pilot-gets-then-loses-new-posting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/controversial-air-india%e2%80%89pilot-gets-then-loses-new-posting\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial Air India\u2009pilot gets, then loses new posting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Air India pilot Arvind Kathpalia, who failed the alcohol test just before he was to command a flight on November 11 and was subsequently removed from the post of director (operations), has been appointed as a regional director by the national carrier.<\/p>\n<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had suspended the flying licence of the 56-year-old pilot for three years on November 12, a day after an \u201cunacceptably high\u201d alcohol count was found in his blood just before he was scheduled to pilot a flight from New Delhi to London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Air India pilot Arvind Kathpalia, who failed the alcohol test just before he was to command a flight on November 11 and was subsequently removed from the post of director (operations), has been appointed as a regional director by the national carrier. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had suspended the flying licence of the 56-year-old pilot for three years on November 12, a day after an \u201cunacceptably high\u201d alcohol count was found in his blood just before he was scheduled to pilot a flight from New Delhi to London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}