{"id":359924,"date":"2020-06-29T10:19:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T04:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=359924"},"modified":"2020-06-29T10:32:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T05:02:56","slug":"dgca-notice-to-airasia-executive-after-pilot-alleges-safety-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-notice-to-airasia-executive-after-pilot-alleges-safety-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA notice to AirAsia executive after pilot alleges safety violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The aviation regulator DGCA has issued a show cause notice to a top executive of AirAsia India two weeks after one of its pilots, who runs a popular YouTube channel called Flying Beast, alleged violations of safety norms by the low-cost airline, senior officials said on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A show cause notice has been issued to Manish Uppal, Head of Operations, AirAsia India after the pilot&#8217;s allegations,&#8221; the DGCA officials said. <\/p>\n<p>AirAsia India did not respond to PTI&#8217;s request for a statement on this matter. <\/p>\n<p>Captain Gaurav Taneja, a popular Youtuber, tweeted on June 14 that he has been suspended by AirAsia India &#8220;for standing up for safe operations of an aircraft and its passengers&#8221;. On June 15, he posted a detailed video on YouTube titled &#8220;Reasons behind suspension from my pilot job&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aviation regulator DGCA has issued a show cause notice to a top executive of AirAsia India two weeks after one of its pilots, who runs a popular YouTube channel called Flying Beast, alleged violations of safety norms by the low-cost airline, senior officials said on Sunday. &#8220;A show cause notice has been issued to Manish Uppal, Head of Operations, AirAsia India after the pilot&#8217;s allegations,&#8221; the DGCA officials said. AirAsia India did not respond to PTI&#8217;s request for a statement on this matter. Captain Gaurav Taneja, a popular Youtuber, tweeted on June 14 that he has been suspended by [&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-359924","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\/359924","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=359924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}