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India Has 25,001 Licensed Pilots, Centre Lacks Data On Those Seeking Jobs
India currently has 25,001 pilots with valid licences, the government informed the Lok Sabha. But the Centre also admitted it has no central record of how many of these pilots are actually employed
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Pilots Licenses Revoked After Botched "Plane Swap" Stunt: Report
In an Instagram post, one of the pilots Luke Aikens acknowledged that the FAA had denied permission for the stunt but "made the personal decision to move forward" with it.
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Government Scraps Requirement of Drone Pilot Licence
The government has scrapped the requirement of a drone pilot license for operating drones in the country via an amendment to the Drone Rules introduced last year.
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Pilot's Licence Suspended After He Crashes Plane Carrying Drug Remdesivir
Aviation safety regulator DGCA has suspended the flying licence of a senior pilot of Madhya Pradesh government for a period of one year for the crash landing of an aircraft at Gwalior airport in May this year.
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European Union Bans Pak International Airlines Over Fake Pilot Licences
Regulators have barred Pakistan International Airlines from the European Union for six months after the state-run carrier grounded nearly a third of its pilots for holding fake or dubious licences, officials said Tuesday.
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IndiGo Pilots Grounded For Almost Landing On Road Thinking It Was Runway
Putting the lives of passengers in danger, an IndiGo aircraft flew close to the road running parallel to the Jaipur Airport runway in February and aviation regulator DGCA has now suspended the flying licenses of the two pilots concerned.
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Pilot who landed plane on Madhya Pradesh highway did not have licence
A wealthy businessman who landed his private plane on a highway in central India this week had been flying without a licence, reports said Thursday.
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2 pilots arrested for leaking licence exam question paper
The CBI has arrested two pilots, including one from Air India subsidiary Alliance Air, in connection with the alleged leakage of a question paper of commercial licence examination.
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Foreign pilots to be eased out by 2013: DGCA
Foreign pilots employed in the Indian aviation industry would be asked to leave by 2013, the head of the country's airlines regulator said on Monday."This is the date that we are planning and we feel that we will be able to achieve it," Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) EK Bharat Bhushan said here.He said the airline industry will through t...
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How corruption in fast-growing aviation industry is hurting nation
More than a dozen commercial pilots in India have been stripped of their licenses and a top airline safety official has been suspended after a government investigation uncovered widespread fraud and corruption in the booming aviation industry.Several of India's private carriers, as well as its state-run airline, Air India, have fired active pilots ...
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Fake pilots probe: 2 more officials arrested
As more and more fake pilots are arrested, the body that is meant to be the country's aviation watchdog the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is itself under a cloud. Late on Tuesday night two more clerks of the country's top aviation body, DGCA, were held in Delhi.The two allegedly took Rs 50,000 to push the pilots' files for licence ap...
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Where are all the fake pilots, asks Delhi police
The Crime Branch of Delhi Police on Monday issued a lookout notice against three pilots and a flying instructor for their involvement in the fake pilot licence scam."We have issued a lookout notice against flying instructor Deepak Atslar, pilots Bhupinder Singh, Syed Habib Ali and Swarn Singh Talwar. Habib and Swarn were supposed to be working with...
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Mumbai: Logbook blew lid off pilot licence scam
Nine pilots have been arrested in the fake pilot licence scam case so far and there is one common link between all of them the logbook.The cops smelt a rat when they noticed the pilots' flying hours were registered even on the day the training aircraft was grounded. "When we started investigations, we found that the flying school had made entry of ...
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Fake pilot licence scam: Govt orders audit of all flying schools
After two more pilots were arrested on Tuesday for submitting fake documents to get their pilot licenses, the Government today promised firm action over the incident. Civil Aviation Minister Vayalar Ravi ordered an audit of all the forty flying schools in the country. "There are about 40 flying schools. Now there is an audit of these schools....
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Fake pilot licences: The flourishing racket
With the arrest of Spice Jet pilots Amit Mundra and Ajay Chaudhary in Jaipur who, on paper, faked 200 hours of flying experience, mandatory to fly commercial, the number of 'fake' pilots in Indian skies has risen to 17. Amit and Ajay are 2005 batch trainees of the Rajasthan Flying Club. ''There was a conspiracy between these pilots and the Raj...
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India Has 25,001 Licensed Pilots, Centre Lacks Data On Those Seeking Jobs
India currently has 25,001 pilots with valid licences, the government informed the Lok Sabha. But the Centre also admitted it has no central record of how many of these pilots are actually employed
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Pilots Licenses Revoked After Botched "Plane Swap" Stunt: Report
In an Instagram post, one of the pilots Luke Aikens acknowledged that the FAA had denied permission for the stunt but "made the personal decision to move forward" with it.
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Government Scraps Requirement of Drone Pilot Licence
The government has scrapped the requirement of a drone pilot license for operating drones in the country via an amendment to the Drone Rules introduced last year.
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Pilot's Licence Suspended After He Crashes Plane Carrying Drug Remdesivir
Aviation safety regulator DGCA has suspended the flying licence of a senior pilot of Madhya Pradesh government for a period of one year for the crash landing of an aircraft at Gwalior airport in May this year.
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European Union Bans Pak International Airlines Over Fake Pilot Licences
Regulators have barred Pakistan International Airlines from the European Union for six months after the state-run carrier grounded nearly a third of its pilots for holding fake or dubious licences, officials said Tuesday.
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IndiGo Pilots Grounded For Almost Landing On Road Thinking It Was Runway
Putting the lives of passengers in danger, an IndiGo aircraft flew close to the road running parallel to the Jaipur Airport runway in February and aviation regulator DGCA has now suspended the flying licenses of the two pilots concerned.
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Pilot who landed plane on Madhya Pradesh highway did not have licence
A wealthy businessman who landed his private plane on a highway in central India this week had been flying without a licence, reports said Thursday.
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2 pilots arrested for leaking licence exam question paper
The CBI has arrested two pilots, including one from Air India subsidiary Alliance Air, in connection with the alleged leakage of a question paper of commercial licence examination.
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Foreign pilots to be eased out by 2013: DGCA
Foreign pilots employed in the Indian aviation industry would be asked to leave by 2013, the head of the country's airlines regulator said on Monday."This is the date that we are planning and we feel that we will be able to achieve it," Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) EK Bharat Bhushan said here.He said the airline industry will through t...
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How corruption in fast-growing aviation industry is hurting nation
More than a dozen commercial pilots in India have been stripped of their licenses and a top airline safety official has been suspended after a government investigation uncovered widespread fraud and corruption in the booming aviation industry.Several of India's private carriers, as well as its state-run airline, Air India, have fired active pilots ...
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Fake pilots probe: 2 more officials arrested
As more and more fake pilots are arrested, the body that is meant to be the country's aviation watchdog the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is itself under a cloud. Late on Tuesday night two more clerks of the country's top aviation body, DGCA, were held in Delhi.The two allegedly took Rs 50,000 to push the pilots' files for licence ap...
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Where are all the fake pilots, asks Delhi police
The Crime Branch of Delhi Police on Monday issued a lookout notice against three pilots and a flying instructor for their involvement in the fake pilot licence scam."We have issued a lookout notice against flying instructor Deepak Atslar, pilots Bhupinder Singh, Syed Habib Ali and Swarn Singh Talwar. Habib and Swarn were supposed to be working with...
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Mumbai: Logbook blew lid off pilot licence scam
Nine pilots have been arrested in the fake pilot licence scam case so far and there is one common link between all of them the logbook.The cops smelt a rat when they noticed the pilots' flying hours were registered even on the day the training aircraft was grounded. "When we started investigations, we found that the flying school had made entry of ...
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Fake pilot licence scam: Govt orders audit of all flying schools
After two more pilots were arrested on Tuesday for submitting fake documents to get their pilot licenses, the Government today promised firm action over the incident. Civil Aviation Minister Vayalar Ravi ordered an audit of all the forty flying schools in the country. "There are about 40 flying schools. Now there is an audit of these schools....
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Fake pilot licences: The flourishing racket
With the arrest of Spice Jet pilots Amit Mundra and Ajay Chaudhary in Jaipur who, on paper, faked 200 hours of flying experience, mandatory to fly commercial, the number of 'fake' pilots in Indian skies has risen to 17. Amit and Ajay are 2005 batch trainees of the Rajasthan Flying Club. ''There was a conspiracy between these pilots and the Raj...
