{"id":431837,"date":"2021-08-24T10:45:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T05:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=431837"},"modified":"2021-08-24T12:04:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T06:34:40","slug":"air-india-express-ousts-sir-from-cockpit-brings-in-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-express-ousts-sir-from-cockpit-brings-in-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India Express ousts &#8216;Sir&#8217; from cockpit, brings in &#8216;Captain&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: In a bid to rejig the power gradient in the cockpit, Air India Express has instructed its first officers to address the pilot-in-command not as &#8216;Sir&#8217;, but by their first name or simply as &#8220;Captain&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The operations circular issued on Friday referred to the October 2018 Trichy accident in which an Air India Express aircraft had a tail strike, then hit a ground-based navigation aid and finally took down the upper portion of the airport boundary wall before it took off for Dubai. The eventful take-off left the aircraft with a fissured underbelly. According to the final investigation report released last month by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, the trigger was a sudden and unexpected reclining of commander&#8217;s seat during the take off roll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: In a bid to rejig the power gradient in the cockpit, Air India Express has instructed its first officers to address the pilot-in-command not as &#8216;Sir&#8217;, but by their first name or simply as &#8220;Captain&#8221;. The operations circular issued on Friday referred to the October 2018 Trichy accident in which an Air India Express aircraft had a tail strike, then hit a ground-based navigation aid and finally took down the upper portion of the airport boundary wall before it took off for Dubai. The eventful take-off left the aircraft with a fissured underbelly. According to the final investigation report [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431837","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=431837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}