Dgca Fake Pilot

• Software glitch causes 90 percent pilots to fail exam

  Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) -- the country's sole aviation regulatory body -- is still trying to recover from the shock of the recently exposed fake pilot scam.

• Indian skies safe despite 'fake' pilots, says regulator

  It began with a dangerous landing and has resulted in 16 pilots being sacked. India's fake flying licence scam posed a severe challenge to the country's airline safety regulator.

• She failed US test but became pilot in India

  As a crackdown began to corner those involved in getting pilots' licences by fudging records, a top officer of the aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) was relieved of his duties following charges that he had influenced an airline to employ his daughter who had failed a pilot test.Apart from DGCA's Director (Air Safety) R...

• 'Fake pilot' probe: Top DGCA official relieved of duty pending inquiry

  The probe into the 'fake pilots' probe has now reached the top echelons of aviation watchdog, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).RS Passi, the joint director of DGCA has been relieved of his duties pending probe into his role into his daughter procuring a fake pilot license.Mr Passi is the father of Garima Passi who quit SpiceJet airl...

• 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...

• 'Fake pilots' scam: Police issue lookout notice against 4

  Intensifying its probe into the 'fake pilots' scam, the Delhi Police has issued a lookout notice against three pilots and a flying instructor to ensure that they have not fled the country.The lookout notices were issued by the Delhi Police's crime branch against pilots Swaran Singh Talwar of MDLR, Syed Habib Ali and Bhupinder Singh for allegedly be...

• DGCA official arrested in 'fake pilot' scam

  The fake pilot saga keeps getting bigger. Four more people, including an official of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), have been arrested by the Delhi Police in connection with the 'fake flying licence' scam.The arrested DGCA official, Pradeep Kumar, was the Assistant Director in charge of licensing till January. This is the first t...

• 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....

• Another Air India pilot caught faking it

  A second Air India pilot has been found to have got his flying licence by allegedly submitting forged marksheets and was grounded. This takes the total number of pilots caught for using fraudulent means to procure a licence to five.The state-owned airline has de-rostered the pilot, identified as Arjun Giare, pending inquiry for allegedly submitting...

• After 6500 flights, it turns out he's not a pilot

  As an Air India pilot, Captain JK Verma has been on 6,500 flights. You can drop the "captain". Mr. Verma's been arrested for faking it.   2 years ago, Mr. Verma bought his license for 12 lakhs. That involved forging mark-sheets with the help of a middleman. The fake documents allowed Mr. Verma to get a license from the Directorate General...

• She used fake marksheet to work as a pilot

  A woman pilot has been arrested in the capital for allegedly using a forged marksheet of the DGCA test to procure a commercial pilot licence, police said today.Parminder Kaur Gulati, a suspended pilot of Indigo, was apprehended by a team of Delhi Police's crime branch yesterday following investigations into a complaint filed by the Directorate Gene...