{"id":336741,"date":"2020-02-11T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T05:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=336741"},"modified":"2020-02-11T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T05:30:07","slug":"indigo-pilot-suspended-for-3-months-for-threatening-wheelchair-bound-senior-citizen-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-pilot-suspended-for-3-months-for-threatening-wheelchair-bound-senior-citizen-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo pilot suspended for 3 months for threatening wheelchair-bound senior citizen in flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Aviation regulator DGCA on Monday suspended an IndiGoNSE 0.15 % 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Aviation regulator DGCA on Monday suspended an IndiGoNSE 0.15 % 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.<\/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-336741","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\/336741","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=336741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}