MUMBAI: Captain A. Kathpalia, Air India’s executive director for operations, has been has been rostered off flying duty after skipping breath analyser tests for past few days.
According to sources at Directorate General of Civil Aviation, an enquiry will be ordered into the lapse.
The airline had set up a five-member committee to investigate the allegations, besides reporting the matter to the aviation regulator, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), after pilot union the Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) sent a legal notice to the DGCA for not taking proper actions against pilots for violation of Breath Analyzer (BA) test.
The tests are conducted before and after flights to ensure that the pilots are not drunk.
The continued inaction by DGCA in this regard attracts both civil and criminal liability on the part of those concerned, ICPA has said.