{"id":495953,"date":"2022-06-03T12:30:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=495953"},"modified":"2022-06-03T12:30:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T07:00:20","slug":"vistara-fined-%e2%82%b910-lakh-after-co-pilot-lands-plane-at-indore-without-simulator-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/vistara-fined-%e2%82%b910-lakh-after-co-pilot-lands-plane-at-indore-without-simulator-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Vistara fined \u20b910 lakh after co-pilot lands plane at Indore without simulator training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW\u2009DELHI: Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Thursday imposed a fine of \u20b910 lakh on Vistara for allowing a co-pilot to land the aircraft at Indore without the requisite training in a simulator , people aware of the matter said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a serious violation endangering lives of the passengers onboard. \u20b910 lakh penalty has been levied on the airline for the said lapse,\u201d a DGCA official said, adding that the airline violated take-off and landing clearance.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement later, Vistara said it was a \u201cregrettable violation\u201d and that the airline always puts the safety of passengers and staff \u201cas its top priority\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA supervised take off and landing (STOL) was conducted on a flight to Indore in August 2021 under the supervision of an experienced captain. The pilots were adequately trained and in possession of valid STOL certificates issued by their previous employer for which Vistara claimed the credit,\u201d an airline spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW\u2009DELHI: Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Thursday imposed a fine of \u20b910 lakh on Vistara for allowing a co-pilot to land the aircraft at Indore without the requisite training in a simulator , people aware of the matter said. \u201cThis is a serious violation endangering lives of the passengers onboard. \u20b910 lakh penalty has been levied on the airline for the said lapse,\u201d a DGCA official said, adding that the airline violated take-off and landing clearance. In a statement later, Vistara said it was a \u201cregrettable violation\u201d and that the airline always puts the safety of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495953","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}