The directorate-general of civil aviation (DGCA) has planned the steps
as the licence forgery cases have given rise to fears that incompetent
pilots are endangering travellers’ lives.
The regulator is also worried that a large number of Indian youth
nowadays go abroad for training to become pilots and return with fake or
invalid licences.
Besides the six cases of forgery, "we have got some more suspicious
cases but there is nothing confirmed as yet and investigations are going
on”, DGCA chief E.K. Bharat Bhushan said.Two pilots of IndiGo and two of SpiceJet were found to have used forged
mark sheets to get licences. An Air India pilot and one from MDLR are
also being probed for similar offences.All the 4,000-odd holders of airline transport pilot licences are being
probed and the DGCA is "considering looking into all the commercial
pilot licence holders,” he said. There are over 10,000 such licence
holders in the country.
21/03/11 PTI/
The Telegraph