{"id":1410,"date":"2011-04-29T10:12:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T10:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2011-04-29T10:12:07","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T10:12:07","slug":"tests-stare-at-4500-pilots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2011\/04\/tests-stare-at-4500-pilots.html","title":{"rendered":"Tests stare at 4,500 pilots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\">New Delhi: <\/span>More than 4,500 aspiring pilots will face a battery of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153stringent\u00e2\u20ac\u009d tests over the weekend as India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s civil aviation regulator tries to make the skies \u00e2\u20ac\u0153safer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d following the recent scandal over the award of pilot licences.<br \/>\nThe tests will be conducted by the directorate-general of civil aviation (DGCA), which has been shaken by the revelations about a dozen-odd pilots with fake degrees and fudged flying-hour certificates, and about nepotism in clearing pilots with dubious test records.<br \/>\nThe investigations have till now shamed two top DGCA officials \u00e2\u20ac\u201d deputy director-general A.K. Sharan and director (air safety) R.S. Passi \u00e2\u20ac\u201d whose children earned their pilot\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s licences in a dubious manner.<br \/>\nBut this could just be the tip of the iceberg: at least nine other middle-level to senior officials are being investigated on how their relatives secured licences to become either airline pilots or engineers. The son of one of the top officials under investigation is employed as a first pilot by India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest private airline.<br \/>\nWhat makes the probe more complicated is the theft of documents that could have nailed insiders. Files relating to at least two of the pilots under investigation are missing.<br \/>\nThe irony is, the DGCA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s exams for new pilots were considered among the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153toughest\u00e2\u20ac\u009d globally \u00e2\u20ac\u201d one needs to score 70 per cent just to pass \u00e2\u20ac\u201d till a dangerously faulty landing last January by an Indigo pilot, Parminder Kaur Gulati, unleashed the probe.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">28\/04\/11 Jayanta Roy Chowdhury\/<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/1110428\/jsp\/nation\/story_13913039.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">The Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: More than 4,500 aspiring pilots will face a battery of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153stringent\u00e2\u20ac\u009d tests over the weekend as India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s civil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}