Fake Pilot Arrested

A man who posed as an airline pilot and travelled in the cockpit of at least one plane was arrested in Turin Airport using forged identity cards and wearing a pilot's uniform, Italian police said on Saturday.

Two pilots working with private airlines were arrested today for allegedly procuring commercial flying licences using forged marksheets, taking the total number of people arrested in such cases to 17.The arrested pilots have been identified as Captain Param Prakash and Captain Anirban Sannigrahi, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ashok Chand sa...

With more and more 'fake' pilot cases being unearthed every day air travel is fast ceasing to be a joyride. Now, after facing flak on the issue from all quarters, aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has decided to put its examination wing under CCTV surveillance.DGCA has a special examination wing called Central Examinat...

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...

Every day, fresh cases of fake pilots being found and arrested seem to be coming up. The arrests of the latest fake pilots, Abhishek Kaushik and Hiren Nagar, have led the Delhi police to a new angle of the racket in Gujarat. Kaushik and Nagar, both in their mid-twenties, met during training at a flying school in Indore. Nagar later led Kaushik...

One more pilot has been arrested in the capital for allegedly using forged marksheets to procure a licence from the country's airline regulator.A senior Delhi police official said Abhinav Kaushik from private airline Indigo, has been arrested for using forged marksheets to procure a licence from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).Delh...

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...

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...

The Rajasthan Flying School is emerging as the epicentre of the fake pilot racket. It ran inside the Jaipur airport for 30 years till 2008 from two meagre rooms and one old aircraft. The shutdown came in 2008 because the aircraft was grounded.With such scant resources, how did it train so many students for so many years?  From fake flights to ...

Amit Mundra and Ajay Chaudhary were arrested in Jaipur late on Monday night for forging documents to qualify as pilots. Two other pilots have been arrested in recent weeks for similar charges, forcing India to confront the fact that they're placing their lives in the hands of people who really may not know what they're doing. The men arrested ...

Just a few days after Parminder Kaur Gulati, a suspended pilot of Indigo airline, was arrested on charges of faking her marksheet to get a pilot licence, another arrest on the same grounds has been made. This time around, Captain J K Verma, a pilot of the national carrier Air India has been arrested."We have arrested Verma. Investigations are on. W...

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...

A man who posed as an airline pilot and travelled in the cockpit of at least one plane was arrested in Turin Airport using forged identity cards and wearing a pilot's uniform, Italian police said on Saturday.

Two pilots working with private airlines were arrested today for allegedly procuring commercial flying licences using forged marksheets, taking the total number of people arrested in such cases to 17.The arrested pilots have been identified as Captain Param Prakash and Captain Anirban Sannigrahi, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ashok Chand sa...

With more and more 'fake' pilot cases being unearthed every day air travel is fast ceasing to be a joyride. Now, after facing flak on the issue from all quarters, aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has decided to put its examination wing under CCTV surveillance.DGCA has a special examination wing called Central Examinat...

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...

Every day, fresh cases of fake pilots being found and arrested seem to be coming up. The arrests of the latest fake pilots, Abhishek Kaushik and Hiren Nagar, have led the Delhi police to a new angle of the racket in Gujarat. Kaushik and Nagar, both in their mid-twenties, met during training at a flying school in Indore. Nagar later led Kaushik...

One more pilot has been arrested in the capital for allegedly using forged marksheets to procure a licence from the country's airline regulator.A senior Delhi police official said Abhinav Kaushik from private airline Indigo, has been arrested for using forged marksheets to procure a licence from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).Delh...

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...

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...

The Rajasthan Flying School is emerging as the epicentre of the fake pilot racket. It ran inside the Jaipur airport for 30 years till 2008 from two meagre rooms and one old aircraft. The shutdown came in 2008 because the aircraft was grounded.With such scant resources, how did it train so many students for so many years?  From fake flights to ...

Amit Mundra and Ajay Chaudhary were arrested in Jaipur late on Monday night for forging documents to qualify as pilots. Two other pilots have been arrested in recent weeks for similar charges, forcing India to confront the fact that they're placing their lives in the hands of people who really may not know what they're doing. The men arrested ...

Just a few days after Parminder Kaur Gulati, a suspended pilot of Indigo airline, was arrested on charges of faking her marksheet to get a pilot licence, another arrest on the same grounds has been made. This time around, Captain J K Verma, a pilot of the national carrier Air India has been arrested."We have arrested Verma. Investigations are on. W...

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...