{"id":550045,"date":"2023-01-25T12:57:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T07:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=550045"},"modified":"2023-01-25T13:06:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T07:36:24","slug":"air-india-backs-pilot-on-urination-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-backs-pilot-on-urination-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India backs pilot on urination incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air India on Tuesday said the suspension of the pilot-in-command\u2019s licence for three months by the DGCA after the urination incident on its New York-New Delhi flight was \u201cexcessive\u201d and the airline would help the pilot appeal against the order.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn light of the mitigating circumstances and the financial detriment already incurred by the crew during their period of de-rostering, Air India deems the licence suspension of the commander excessive and will be assisting him with an appeal,\u201d the Tata group-owned airline said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The DGCA has fined Air India Rs 30 lakh for failing to follow regulations in handling the incident that happened on the New York-New Delhi flight on November 26, 2022. It has suspended the pilot-in-command for three months and fined the airline\u2019s director-in-flight services Rs 3 lakh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air India on Tuesday said the suspension of the pilot-in-command\u2019s licence for three months by the DGCA after the urination incident on its New York-New Delhi flight was \u201cexcessive\u201d and the airline would help the pilot appeal against the order. \u201cIn light of the mitigating circumstances and the financial detriment already incurred by the crew during their period of de-rostering, Air India deems the licence suspension of the commander excessive and will be assisting him with an appeal,\u201d the Tata group-owned airline said in a statement. The DGCA has fined Air India Rs 30 lakh for failing to follow regulations [&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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550045","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=550045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}