{"id":295501,"date":"2019-10-09T12:41:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T07:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=295501"},"modified":"2019-10-09T12:41:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T07:11:58","slug":"airline-dgca-let-off-pilot-despite-unsafe-landing-while-another-who-stuck-to-sop-grounded-for-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/airline-dgca-let-off-pilot-despite-unsafe-landing-while-another-who-stuck-to-sop-grounded-for-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Airline, DGCA let off pilot despite unsafe landing; while another who stuck to SOP, grounded for a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Air India and Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) top brass allegedly stepped in to protect a pilot who willfully jeopardized the lives of passengers when landing a Delhi-Hong Kong flight early this year. In another similar incident, an Air India pilot who followed the safety norms to correct an unsafe approach and carry out a go-around for a safe landing was grounded for close to a year. The pilot who endangered lives was back to flying in three months.<br \/>\nThe two cases highlight the arbitrary manner in which certain incidents that have a bearing on flight safety are handled.<br \/>\n&#8220;No pilot should be under the fear of being grounded for taking corrective action. But Air India and DGCA\u2019s biased handling to these two Hong Kong incidents sends a different message,&#8221; said a senior commander requesting anonymity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Air India and Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) top brass allegedly stepped in to protect a pilot who willfully jeopardized the lives of passengers when landing a Delhi-Hong Kong flight early this year. In another similar incident, an Air India pilot who followed the safety norms to correct an unsafe approach and carry out a go-around for a safe landing was grounded for close to a year. The pilot who endangered lives was back to flying in three months. The two cases highlight the arbitrary manner in which certain incidents that have a bearing on flight safety are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295501","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}