Fake Pilot Scam: DGCA Clips the Wings of a Top Official


New Delhi, Apr 19 (PTI) Aviation regulator DGCA, which has come under the scanner over the fake pilot licenses issue, has stripped one of its top officials off his responsibilities following charges against him of influencing an airline to employ his daughter, who had failed pilot test.

R S Passi, director, Air Safety, has been taken off his responsibilities, highly-placed Directorate General of Civil Aviation sources said here.

The sources said that Passi has neither been sacked nor suspended.

"He is no longer dealing with air safety matters.

Passi has been removed from his position in the air safety directorate," the sources said.

During investigation into fake licence cases, it was found that Passi's daughter Garima had not cleared a flight test in the US, but was working in an Indian carrier as the pilot. Garima had quit the airline last month.

  

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