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SME Times News Bureau | 28 Sep, 2020
The Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) has written to the Director
General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) seeking temporary suspension of the
breath analyser test (BAT) due to fears around the ongoing Covid
pandemic.
In the letter to DGCA, FIP said: "As the Covid 19
virus cases are increasing day by day, our members are apprehensive to
undergo the BA Test. You will appreciate that in the present scenario of
unprecedented crisis, their fears cannot be ruled out and temporary
suspension of BA Test is essential."
FIP said while it endorses
the conduct of BAT as the most reliable and efficient way of detecting
alcohol in breath, due to the current extraordinary situation due to
Covid pandemic, DGCA should reconsider their order.
While on the
one hand BATs are necessary for the safety of passengers, at the same
time pilots cannot be subjected to higher risk due to undergoing BAT
with the same instrument.
FIP said the directive permitting the
repetitive use of the same BAT equipment could pose a risk to the pilots
and would be non-pragmatic and unwise.
Earlier, the Executive
Pilots' Association had asked the Director General of Civil Aviation
(DGCA) to keep in abeyance the order on mandatory breath alcohol testing
for 100 per cent of crewmembers operating international flights.
In
a letter to the DGCA, the association said the operative part of the
subject order on 100 per cent testing of crew operating international
flights be placed in abeyance till a failsafe disinfection protocol is
in place.
In a letter to DGCA, the association Pilots'
Association said the practice of 100 per cent BA testing was
discontinued a few months ago, at the onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic,
when the countrywide case count was less than 1000.
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