Air India Pilots

A Mirage 2000 fighter jet of the Indian Air Force crashed this morning near Madhya Pradesh's Bhind district, officials said. The pilot ejected safely, the Indian Air Force or IAF tweeted.

An air ambulance of the Abu Dhabi Police crashed in the UAE's capital on Saturday, killing two pilots, a doctor and a nurse, according to the police.

The report into the crash of an Air India Express aircraft in Kerala last August has indicated the possibility of a medical factor regarding the pilot in charge, which could have had a role in the aviation disaster.

The probable cause of the Air India plane crash at Kozhikode airport last year, which left 21 people dead, was non-adherence to standard operating procedure by the pilot flying the aircraft, a government report released on Saturday stated.

Captain Devi Sharan, a retired pilot of Air India whose plane IC-814 was hijacked to Kandahar in December 1999, said the Taliban, which has seized power in Kabul, can't be trusted as their ground fighters don't follow rules.

A MiG-21 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed today in Rajasthan's Barmer during a training mission. The pilot ejected safely, officials said.

Devi Sharan, Captain of the Air India flight IC 814, said there was no change in the visuals of Afghanistan now from what he could recall seeing through the cockpit of the hijacked flight during that time.

Mawya Sudan, a resident of Jammu and Kashmir, has become the first woman fighter pilot in the Indian Air Force (IAF) from Rajouri district.

Five senior pilots of Air India have died in May due to COVID-19, senior officials said on Thursday, adding that the carrier has started vaccinating its employees from May 15 onwards after a delay due to non-availability of vaccines.

Coming to the aid of all Air India pilots, permanent as well as on contract, whose services were terminated last year, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday quashed the national carrier's decision and directed their reinstatement.

In an unusual incident, an Air India flight which had taken off from Delhi airport early on Thursday returned back after the pilot reported presence of bat to Air Traffic Control (ATC).

Air India Captain Zoya Agarwal, who commanded the San Francisco to Bengaluru flight, has spoken to Humans of Bombay about her childhood dream of becoming her pilot, how she worked to achieve it and her role as captain of flight AI-176.

An Air Force pilot was killed in an MiG-21 aircraft accident in Punjab late on Thursday.The accident took place near Moga district late on Thursday night, the Indian Air Force said in a tweet.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed that air traffic controllers (ATCs) and five per cent of pilots and cabin crew on duty would undergo random breath analyser (BA) tests for the next three months in view of the prevailing pandemic.

The pilots of Air India have threatened strike if pan-India vaccination camps are not held for them. In a letter to the management today they have questioned why they were excluded from the vaccination camps for 18-45 year age group held by the manag

A Mirage 2000 fighter jet of the Indian Air Force crashed this morning near Madhya Pradesh's Bhind district, officials said. The pilot ejected safely, the Indian Air Force or IAF tweeted.

An air ambulance of the Abu Dhabi Police crashed in the UAE's capital on Saturday, killing two pilots, a doctor and a nurse, according to the police.

The report into the crash of an Air India Express aircraft in Kerala last August has indicated the possibility of a medical factor regarding the pilot in charge, which could have had a role in the aviation disaster.

The probable cause of the Air India plane crash at Kozhikode airport last year, which left 21 people dead, was non-adherence to standard operating procedure by the pilot flying the aircraft, a government report released on Saturday stated.

Captain Devi Sharan, a retired pilot of Air India whose plane IC-814 was hijacked to Kandahar in December 1999, said the Taliban, which has seized power in Kabul, can't be trusted as their ground fighters don't follow rules.

A MiG-21 fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed today in Rajasthan's Barmer during a training mission. The pilot ejected safely, officials said.

Devi Sharan, Captain of the Air India flight IC 814, said there was no change in the visuals of Afghanistan now from what he could recall seeing through the cockpit of the hijacked flight during that time.

Mawya Sudan, a resident of Jammu and Kashmir, has become the first woman fighter pilot in the Indian Air Force (IAF) from Rajouri district.

Five senior pilots of Air India have died in May due to COVID-19, senior officials said on Thursday, adding that the carrier has started vaccinating its employees from May 15 onwards after a delay due to non-availability of vaccines.

Coming to the aid of all Air India pilots, permanent as well as on contract, whose services were terminated last year, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday quashed the national carrier's decision and directed their reinstatement.

In an unusual incident, an Air India flight which had taken off from Delhi airport early on Thursday returned back after the pilot reported presence of bat to Air Traffic Control (ATC).

Air India Captain Zoya Agarwal, who commanded the San Francisco to Bengaluru flight, has spoken to Humans of Bombay about her childhood dream of becoming her pilot, how she worked to achieve it and her role as captain of flight AI-176.

An Air Force pilot was killed in an MiG-21 aircraft accident in Punjab late on Thursday.The accident took place near Moga district late on Thursday night, the Indian Air Force said in a tweet.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed that air traffic controllers (ATCs) and five per cent of pilots and cabin crew on duty would undergo random breath analyser (BA) tests for the next three months in view of the prevailing pandemic.

The pilots of Air India have threatened strike if pan-India vaccination camps are not held for them. In a letter to the management today they have questioned why they were excluded from the vaccination camps for 18-45 year age group held by the manag