{"id":432253,"date":"2021-08-26T10:57:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T05:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=432253"},"modified":"2021-08-26T13:05:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T07:35:50","slug":"dgca-proposes-random-dope-tests-for-pilots-cabin-crew-air-traffic-controllers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/dgca-proposes-random-dope-tests-for-pilots-cabin-crew-air-traffic-controllers\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA proposes random dope tests for pilots, cabin crew, air traffic controllers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India has for the first time proposed to conduct dope tests on pilots, cabin crew and air traffic controllers (ATCOs) on a random basis. Also anyone wishing to become a pilot could be required to undergo test for psychoactive substances before getting admission to a flying school. <\/p>\n<p>An aviation personnel testing positive for the second time could have his or her licence suspended for three years and a third time positive test could mean license cancellation. <\/p>\n<p>The drugs to be tested for include amphetamine, methamphtamine, cannabis, cocaine, opioids, marbiturates, benzodizipine and MDMA or ecstasy. Flight crew members and other key aviation personnel in operations are mandatorily subjected to breath tests to ensure they are not tipsy when reporting for work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India has for the first time proposed to conduct dope tests on pilots, cabin crew and air traffic controllers (ATCOs) on a random basis. Also anyone wishing to become a pilot could be required to undergo test for psychoactive substances before getting admission to a flying school. An aviation personnel testing positive for the second time could have his or her licence suspended for three years and a third time positive test could mean license cancellation. The drugs to be tested for include amphetamine, methamphtamine, cannabis, cocaine, opioids, marbiturates, benzodizipine and MDMA or ecstasy. Flight crew members and [&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-432253","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\/432253","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=432253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}