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DGCA is unlikely to hold radio communication skill test for pilots in 2024On May 1, 2023, the Ministry of Communication, which presently conducts the test, officially handed over the responsibility of conducting t...
Pakistan government cancels licenses of 50 pilotsThe issue of fake licences surfaced in the wake of the tragic crash of a Pakistan International Airlines plane in Karachi on May 22, killin...
PIA clears 110 pilots out of 141 whose licences were suspendedPakistan's national flag carrier cleared 110 pilots out of the 141 whose licences to fly were suspended in the backdrop of the fake degrees...
262 pilots in Pakistan hold fake licenses: Aviation MinisterThe decision comes at a time when an initial inquiry into a PIA plane crash was presented before the parliament by the country's aviation m...
Test for pilots to go online from AugustIn the case of pilots, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) will now conduct tests monthly instead of quarterly, a senior DGCA ...
350 commercial pilots flying skies with invalid licencesThe Directorate General of Civil Aviation is now contemplating action against the heads of training department of these airlines.
102 Air India pilots found flying with lapsed licencesA confidential note has been put up to AI management on this issue by the airline's other departments that are facing heat from the regulat...
- First online exam for pilot licences begins
In a bid to prevent pilots from getting licences through fraudulent means, Civil Aviation regulator DGCA started for the first time its onl...
- Government mulls compulsory DGCA entrance test for pilots
Unscrupulous students will soon find the 'Munnabhai' way of becoming a pilot and threatening passenger lives closed for them as the pilot a...
- Two more held in fake pilot scam, total arrests 22
A trainee co-pilot with Air India was arrested for allegedly using forged marksheets to procure commercial flying licences, taking the tota...
- DGCA scraps special exam for pilot licence
Students aspiring to be pilots will now have to clear all the pilot licence exam papers only by appearing for regular exams that are held o...
- 'Special' exam gave DGCA honcho's daughter licence
The joint director general of civil aviation appears to have flouted a Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) norm on pilot licence e...
- With fake pilot being caught every day, how safe are passengers?
An airhostess had barely finished giving the safety instructions on a Delhi-B'lore flight last week when a passenger asked: "What if the pi...
Four arrested in fake flying licence scandalA person is eligible to fly a commercial aircraft only after securing a CPL, which is given out after a person completes 200 hours of flyin...
- Fake licences: DGCA to tighten the selection process for pilots
DGCA has drawn up measures to tighten the selection process for pilots flying scheduled airlines to check the menace of fake licences which...
- End of flying career for 14 'fake' pilots
DGCA revoked a total of 14 commercial pilot licences, ending the career of those pilots who submitted fake flying training records from Raj...
- Crime branch probes officials’ role in fake pilot licence case
DGCA has brought 550 airline transport pilot licences under the scanner, allotted over the last 15 months, in the first leg of the investig...
- Growing list: Another AI pilot caught faking marks
This is 3rd such discovery in 4 days and the 4th fake commander detected since Feb-end — 2 with IndiGo and 1 each with AI and MDLR.
- 2 more pilots found to have fudged papers
What's worrying the aviation industry is that the new cases have tumbled out within a week of DGCA chief Bharat Bhushan ordering an unprece...
- AI resumes pilot recruitment process
National carrier Air India has put the selection process for 40 pilots back on track after having put it on hold for more than a year follo...