Air passenger left stranded, as pilot's duty hours were over!

Vishakhapatanam: At least 70 passengers of a Mumbai-bound Spicejet flight were left stranded at the Vishakhapatnam airport on Sunday after their flight failed to take off.

Buzz up! After issuing boarding passes to the passengers, the Spicejet officials announced that the plane would not be able to take off in the absence of the pilot, who reportedly said his duty hours were over. Read More................Air passenger left stranded, as pilot's duty hours were over!

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When both the Pilots went to Sleep & Plane overshoot Mumbai

An Air India Jaipur-Mumbai flight flew well past its destination with both its pilots fatigued and fast asleep in the cockpit. When the pilots were finally woken up by anxious Mumbai air traffic controllers, the plane was about half way to Goa. Read more at TOI.................................Plane overshoots Mumbai as both pilots go to sleep

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Tippler Indian Pilots

It seems that many of the Indian Pilots are very fond of booze. As per one report of Indian civil aviation authorities, around 50 pilots each year in India are being grounded because they had consumed alcohol before taking a flight!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), a body controlling airline operations in India, said dozens of pilots are found to have consumed alcohol during routine pre-medical tests every year. Read more...............................Pilots in India often fail alcohol tests

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20 Foreign Pilots sent home for poor English

Don't know English properly, then you are not welcome with Indian airlines. As per a report India's civil aviation regulator, country has sent home at least 20 foreign pilots flying for its airlines in the past year as their poor English posed safety concerns.

English is used by India's hard-pressed air traffic controllers, who are struggling to make sense of crowded skies following a surge in new airlines in the last few years.

Rapid growth has led to carriers hiring hundreds of foreign pilots -- including from Central Asia and Eastern Europe.

"There have been cases where pilots have been sent back as their English proficiency was not up to the mark," Kanu Gohain, Director General of Civil Aviation, told reporters.

"Around 20-25 have been sent back, mainly from CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) nations and eastern Europe."

Several near misses have been reported in recent months as planes competed to land at overstretched big city airports.

Newspapers and television channels have said poor communication between foreign pilots and air traffic controllers is often to blame.

Passenger traffic is expected to grow at 19 percent a year up to 2009 and the country's domestic airlines will need more than 400 new planes in the next five years to meet growth.

Picture Credit:flyasa.com Pl. note that the above picture is not of the rejected pilots

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