March 25, 2011 7:52 PM

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DGCA cancels licences of 14 pilots

Directorate General of Civil Aviation, DGCA has grounded 14 pilots till this evening, who obtained their commercial licences by submitting fake records and documents. DGCA sources said, more such cases are being studied and added that ten touts have also been arrested in the case.The move came as the Rajasthan Police unearthed a scam in which a non-existent pilots' training school was allegedly doling out fake records to the aspirants in their bid to secure Commercial Pilot Licenses. A person is eligible to fly a commercial aircraft only when he or she secures a CPL, which is given out after a person completes 200 hours of flying during the training. However, the 14 pilots whose licenses have been revoked had allegedly not flown the mandatory hours and are alleged to have got fake certificates from the Rajasthan flying training institute. The state police have also arrested two such pilots, who, during the interrogation, allegedly revealed the modus operandi. DGCA chief E K Bharat Bhushan said, the licenses of around 10,000 pilots are under the scanner, besides about 4,000 holders of Airlines Pilots Training License. He had also said that DGCA would conduct third-party audit of all the 40 flying schools in the country in the wake of cases of forgery behind securing of licences coming to light. Earlier this month, authorities said they had taken action against 57 pilots who had reported for duty drunk over the past two years.

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