Chennai: Pilots continue to turn up drunk for work despite restrictions and tests. Between 2009 and February 2014, a total of 165 pilots across the country were found to have high blood alcohol levels during checks, reveal the answers to an RTI application filed by TOI.
Delhi tops the list with 50 pilots being grounded after reporting drunk for work in the last five years. In Mumbai, the number was 47, Kolkata it was 18 and in Chennai 17.
Statistics from the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) show there has been a gradual increase every year in the number of pilots having higher-than-permissible limits of alcohol in their bloodstream during pre-flight medical tests — from 35 in 2009 to 41 in 2013. Till February this year four pilots were caught for being drunk. In Chennai, there has been an increase in the number of pilots found drunk on duty — from two in 2009 to five in 2013.
Read news in full 26/05/14 Christin Mathew Philip/Times of India
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