{"id":357524,"date":"2020-06-16T10:18:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T04:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=357524"},"modified":"2020-06-16T10:27:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T04:57:44","slug":"dgca-investigating-airasia-india-after-pilot-alleges-safety-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-investigating-airasia-india-after-pilot-alleges-safety-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA investigating AirAsia India after pilot alleges safety violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The aviation regulator is investigating AirAsia India after one of its plots, who runs a popular YouTube channel called Flying Beast, alleged violations of safety norms by the low-cost airliner, senior DGCA officials said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Gaurav Taneja tweeted on Sunday that he has been suspended by AirAsia India &#8220;for standing up for safe operations of an aircraft and its passengers&#8221;. On Monday, he posted a detailed video on YouTube titled &#8220;Reasons behind suspension from my pilot job&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Taneja alleged the airline has asked its pilots to do 98 per cent of landings in &#8220;Flap 3&#8221; mode, which allows it to save fuel. He said if a pilot does not do 98 per cent of landings in &#8220;Flap 3&#8221; mode, the airline considers it a violation of its standard operating procedure (SOP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aviation regulator is investigating AirAsia India after one of its plots, who runs a popular YouTube channel called Flying Beast, alleged violations of safety norms by the low-cost airliner, senior DGCA officials said on Monday. Gaurav Taneja tweeted on Sunday that he has been suspended by AirAsia India &#8220;for standing up for safe operations of an aircraft and its passengers&#8221;. On Monday, he posted a detailed video on YouTube titled &#8220;Reasons behind suspension from my pilot job&#8221;. Taneja alleged the airline has asked its pilots to do 98 per cent of landings in &#8220;Flap 3&#8221; mode, which allows it [&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-357524","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\/357524","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=357524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}