{"id":657253,"date":"2026-01-03T11:33:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=657253"},"modified":"2026-01-03T11:33:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:03:47","slug":"air-india-pulls-pilot-off-duty-over-fitness-concern-before-vancouver-delhi-flight-warns-of-strict-action-if-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-pulls-pilot-off-duty-over-fitness-concern-before-vancouver-delhi-flight-warns-of-strict-action-if-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India pulls pilot off duty over \u2018fitness\u2019 concern before Vancouver-Delhi flight, warns of \u2018strict action\u2019 if guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air India released a statement after one of its pilots was detained in Vancouver, Canada, after he allegedly smelled of alcohol prior to operating a flight. In its first remarks addressing the incident, Air India said that the crew member was offloaded, which led to a delay in the flight&#8217;s departure.<\/p>\n<p>The airline added that an investigation has been launched after the Canadian authorities raised concerns over the pilot&#8217;s fitness to operate the flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air India released a statement after one of its pilots was detained in Vancouver, Canada, after he allegedly smelled of alcohol prior to operating a flight. In its first remarks addressing the incident, Air India said that the crew member was offloaded, which led to a delay in the flight&#8217;s departure. The airline added that an investigation has been launched after the Canadian authorities raised concerns over the pilot&#8217;s fitness to operate the flight.<\/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":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657253","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=657253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}