It was finally forced to shut shop in 2008 because the aircraft that it owned was grounded.
The Rajasthan Anti-Corruption Bureau, though, only recently stumbled
upon this startling fact after the arrest of the two pilots, Amit Mundra
and Ajay Chaudhary, who are on paper, trainees of the 2005 batch of the
Rajasthan Flying Club.After the initial probe, it was found that the Chief Flying Instructor
of the school took money from students to fudge records of their flying
hours.This ensured that the flying school saved money on fuel, earned bribes and the students got their licenses faster.
"Officials of the school took bribes from students. Each of us paid Rs.
3.5 lakh”, said Chaudhary, who worked with Spice Jet and had faked
flying hours to operate commercial flights.
So, while trainees are required to have a minimum experience of 250
flying hours to avail a licence, at least 13 pilots trained here flew
only 40-50 hours.
Investigators also found that these students, in records, were flying
even on days when the school’s aircraft was grounded for maintenance
work.
24/03/11
NDTV.com
Jaipur/New Delhi: With
two more pilots being arrested in Jaipur for submitting fake documents
to get their flying licences, the government is slowly waking up to a
thriving racket in Rajasthan that churns out fake pilots.
The Rajasthan Flying School, operating from two tiny rooms inside the
Jaipur airport since the last thirty years, has been quietly fudging
records to enable students to procure pilot licences.
