{"id":336859,"date":"2020-02-11T11:56:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T06:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=336859"},"modified":"2020-02-11T12:18:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T06:48:56","slug":"dgca-suspends-indigo-pilot-for-intimidating-senior-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-suspends-indigo-pilot-for-intimidating-senior-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA suspends IndiGo pilot for intimidating senior citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : India&#8217;s aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has temporarily suspended the license of a pilot with the country&#8217;s largest domestic airline IndiGo for threatening and intimidating a senior citizen on a flight between Chennai and Bangalore during last month, the agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>DGCA had earlier issued a show cause notice to the pilot in command (PIC), who operated IndiGo flight 6E-806, flying between Chennai and Bangalore, on 13 January, the regulator said in the statement adding that the pilot has been suspended for a period of three months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After examining the reply of the PIC to the show cause notice it was established that the PIC&#8217;s attitude towards the wheelchair bound senior citizen passenger was intimidating , threatening and lacked compassion,&#8221; DGCA said in the statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : India&#8217;s aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has temporarily suspended the license of a pilot with the country&#8217;s largest domestic airline IndiGo for threatening and intimidating a senior citizen on a flight between Chennai and Bangalore during last month, the agency said in a statement. DGCA had earlier issued a show cause notice to the pilot in command (PIC), who operated IndiGo flight 6E-806, flying between Chennai and Bangalore, on 13 January, the regulator said in the statement adding that the pilot has been suspended for a period of three months. &#8220;After examining the reply [&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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336859","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=336859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}