{"id":336901,"date":"2020-02-11T12:22:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T06:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=336901"},"modified":"2020-02-11T12:53:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T07:23:18","slug":"indigo-pilot-suspended-for-3-months-for-threatening-wheelchair-bound-senior-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indigo-pilot-suspended-for-3-months-for-threatening-wheelchair-bound-senior-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"IndiGo pilot suspended for 3 months for threatening wheelchair-bound senior citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation regulator DGCA on Monday suspended an IndiGo captain for three months for allegedly intimidating and threatening 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 allegedly intimidating and threatening 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 [&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":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336901","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=336901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}