New Delhi: Just 72 hours after Indian Commercial Pilot Association (ICPA)- Pilot union of Air India wrote a warning letter to the DGCA saying that having stressed co-pilot in the cockpit was dangerous and a recipe of disaster, a co-pilot on Sunday evening had a heated argument with his commander inside the cockpit at the Jaipur Airport.
Argument led to abuses and sources say the two nearly came to fisticuffs. DGCA sources maintained that probably the co-pilot was stressed for he abused the commander over the issue of jotting down aircraft notes. DGCA on its part has now asked AI to conduct an internal probe even as AI has derostered the two pending inquiry.
DGCA says that concerned with the recent incidents they are in the process of formulating new policy to look into the aspect of stress among the cockpit crew. But before the policy could be formulated a former member of CASAC -Civil Aviation Safety Advisory Council has written a scathing letter to the DGCA stating that psychometric evaluation that the regulator was planning would be of no use as long as there is indiscipline in the DGCA. The letter has also been marked to the PMO and Secretary Civil Aviation.
07/04/15 Pankaj Upadhyay/India Today
Argument led to abuses and sources say the two nearly came to fisticuffs. DGCA sources maintained that probably the co-pilot was stressed for he abused the commander over the issue of jotting down aircraft notes. DGCA on its part has now asked AI to conduct an internal probe even as AI has derostered the two pending inquiry.
DGCA says that concerned with the recent incidents they are in the process of formulating new policy to look into the aspect of stress among the cockpit crew. But before the policy could be formulated a former member of CASAC -Civil Aviation Safety Advisory Council has written a scathing letter to the DGCA stating that psychometric evaluation that the regulator was planning would be of no use as long as there is indiscipline in the DGCA. The letter has also been marked to the PMO and Secretary Civil Aviation.
07/04/15 Pankaj Upadhyay/India Today
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