{"id":336775,"date":"2020-02-11T11:08:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T05:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=336775"},"modified":"2020-02-11T11:28:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T05:58:29","slug":"indigo-pilot-suspended-for-intimidation-aggression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-pilot-suspended-for-intimidation-aggression\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo pilot suspended for \u2018intimidation, aggression\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An IndiGo pilot has been suspended for three months by the Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGCA) for \u201cmisusing his authority in intimidating and threatening\u201d a wheelchair-bound passenger and her attendant.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened on January 13 this year when IndiGo Airlines\u2019 Chennai-Bengaluru flight landed. During de-planing, a lady passenger, who was accompanying a wheelchair-bound senior citizen, asked the lead cabin crew for early wheelchair assistance.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the DGCA said investigation revealed that the Pilot in Command (PIC) misused his authority to intimidate and threaten the wheelchair-bound passenger and her attendant by saying that they would be handed over to the Central Industrial Security Force and a police case would be registered against them for unruly behaviour. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An IndiGo pilot has been suspended for three months by the Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGCA) for \u201cmisusing his authority in intimidating and threatening\u201d a wheelchair-bound passenger and her attendant. The incident happened on January 13 this year when IndiGo Airlines\u2019 Chennai-Bengaluru flight landed. During de-planing, a lady passenger, who was accompanying a wheelchair-bound senior citizen, asked the lead cabin crew for early wheelchair assistance. In a statement, the DGCA said investigation revealed that the Pilot in Command (PIC) misused his authority to intimidate and threaten the wheelchair-bound passenger and her attendant by saying that they would be handed over [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336775","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=336775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}