{"id":277917,"date":"2019-06-11T04:49:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T04:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=277917"},"modified":"2019-06-11T04:49:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T04:49:30","slug":"soon-air-india-may-conduct-random-drug-test-on-pilots-other-crew-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/soon-air-india-may-conduct-random-drug-test-on-pilots-other-crew-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon, Air India may conduct random drug test on pilots, other crew members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a first for Indian carriers, Air India is likely to start random drug tests on its pilots and cabin crew. Crew members who are found to have a drug abuse problem could be barred from operating flights till they completely give the same up for good. &#8220;There is no specific regulation monitoring drug testing\u2026 It is recommended that (AI\u2019s) medical department is asked to devise a process for doing random testing for drugs as a safety initiative\u2026\u201d says a note titled \u201csafety recommendations for psychoactive substances\u201d sent by the airline\u2019s ED and chief of flight safety, Harpreet A De Singh, to AI chairman and other top officials.<\/p>\n<p>A senior airline official told TOI, Air India is planning to take this up as a \u201cpioneering\u201d effort to enhance flight safety in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a first for Indian carriers, Air India is likely to start random drug tests on its pilots and cabin crew. Crew members who are found to have a drug abuse problem could be barred from operating flights till they completely give the same up for good. &#8220;There is no specific regulation monitoring drug testing\u2026 It is recommended that (AI\u2019s) medical department is asked to devise a process for doing random testing for drugs as a safety initiative\u2026\u201d says a note titled \u201csafety recommendations for psychoactive substances\u201d sent by the airline\u2019s ED and chief of flight safety, Harpreet A De [&hellip;]<\/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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277917","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=277917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}