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AI 'pee-gate': Scindia's intervention sought to revoke suspension of pilot's licence
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IANS | 26 Jan, 2023
The Federation of Indian Pilots on Wednesday wrote to Union Civil
Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia seeking his intervention to
revoke the suspension of licence of the pilot-in-command of the Air
India flight in which peeing incident occurred on November 26, 2022.
The pilots' body said that DGCA's 'knee-jerk' reaction appears to have been triggered by sensational media reports.
"Prima
facie, there was no effort on the part of the DGCA to conclude its own
independent enquiry to establish facts on the basis of credible evidence
and nor was the suspended licence holders was given an opportunity to
be heard by his own employer's internal complaint committee," said the
letter written to the Minister on Wednesday.
The pilots' body
requested the Civil Aviation Minister's immediate intervention to revoke
the suspension of the pilot's licence.
"It is a matter of great
concern that DGCA continues to wield autocratic, colonial-era powers
derived from archaic legislation that effectively makes it a
rule-making, investigating, punishing and appellate authority all rolled
into one without adequate checks and balances, such arbitrary actions
have become the norm rather than an exception," said the Federation of
Indian pilots.
Aviation regulator DGCA on January 20 imposed a
fine of Rs 30 lakh on Air India and suspended the licence of
pilot-in-command for three months in the Air India peeing case which
occurred on November 26, 2022.
Moreover, the regulator also
imposed a penalty of Rs 3 lakh on director-in-flight services of Air
India for failing to discharge duties.
Earlier, on Tuesday, Air
India joint action forum, a group of six unions, on Tuesday appealed to
aviation regulator, Directorate General of Civil Aviation to withdraw
the suspension of the pilot-in-command of the Air India flight in which
peeing incident occurred.
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