{"id":282379,"date":"2019-07-16T05:19:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T05:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=282379"},"modified":"2019-07-16T05:19:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T05:19:38","slug":"post-air-india-incident-dgca-bars-off-duty-crew-members-from-travelling-in-cockpit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/post-air-india-incident-dgca-bars-off-duty-crew-members-from-travelling-in-cockpit\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Air India incident, DGCA bars off-duty crew members from travelling in cockpit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Aviation regulator DGCA Monday barred airline officials, including pilots and aircraft maintenance engineers, from travelling in the cockpit when they are off-duty or on leave. The regulator&#8217;s directions came after an off-duty pilot of Air India tested positive in a pre-flight alcohol test on Saturday when he was scheduled to travel in the cockpit of a plane from Delhi to Bengaluru. <\/p>\n<p>The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has asked the national carrier to take strict action against the pilot. <\/p>\n<p>This practice of off-duty or on leave officials is in violation of the Aeronautical Information Circular (AIC) 3 of 1997, it said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Aviation regulator DGCA Monday barred airline officials, including pilots and aircraft maintenance engineers, from travelling in the cockpit when they are off-duty or on leave. The regulator&#8217;s directions came after an off-duty pilot of Air India tested positive in a pre-flight alcohol test on Saturday when he was scheduled to travel in the cockpit of a plane from Delhi to Bengaluru. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has asked the national carrier to take strict action against the pilot. This practice of off-duty or on leave officials is in violation of the Aeronautical Information Circular (AIC) 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282379","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}