{"id":336696,"date":"2020-02-11T10:14:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T04:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=336696"},"modified":"2020-02-11T10:22:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T04:52:55","slug":"indigo-pilot-barred-for-3-months-for-threatening-wheelchair-bound-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-pilot-barred-for-3-months-for-threatening-wheelchair-bound-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo pilot barred for 3 months for threatening wheelchair-bound citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator DGCA on Monday suspended an IndiGo captain for three months for &#8220;intimidating and threatening&#8221; a wheelchair-bound senior citizen in a Chennai-Bengaluru flight on January 13, an official said. <\/p>\n<p>During investigation, it was found that the pilot-in-command &#8220;insisted&#8221; on an apology letter from the passengers &#8212; the senior citizen and her daughter &#8212; which further delayed the matter, detaining them for approximately 75 minutes after the deboarding began at the Bengaluru airport. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was established that the pilot-in-command&#8217;s attitude towards the wheelchair-bound senior citizen passenger was intimidating, threatening and lacked compassion. The DGCA has suspended his license for a period of three months,&#8221; the official added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator DGCA on Monday suspended an IndiGo captain for three months for &#8220;intimidating and threatening&#8221; a wheelchair-bound senior citizen in a Chennai-Bengaluru flight on January 13, an official said. During investigation, it was found that the pilot-in-command &#8220;insisted&#8221; on an apology letter from the passengers &#8212; the senior citizen and her daughter &#8212; which further delayed the matter, detaining them for approximately 75 minutes after the deboarding began at the Bengaluru airport. &#8220;It was established that the pilot-in-command&#8217;s attitude towards the wheelchair-bound senior citizen passenger was intimidating, threatening and lacked compassion. The DGCA has suspended his license for a [&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-336696","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\/336696","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=336696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}